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Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off…

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Xbox Game Pass Just Added The Most Thrilling Multiplayer Action Game Of The Year

33 Immortals, a new early access action game, has you team up to fight your way out of Hell. It's one of the best multiplayer action games out this year.

Inverse

Son of cricket legend Colin Cowdrey accuses neighbour of 'water torture' harassment campaign over sale of £3.85m house

Jeremy Cowdrey says his neighbour Vanessa Gibson ‘terrorised’ him to ruin the sale of his property

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Ban on conversion 'therapy' to be reconsidered by Supreme Court. Here's what the discredited practice that tries to change LGBTQ youth is like

It was “mentally and emotionally abusive,” says a young man who has been through it. An expert has called it "torture."

Fortune

Family of man who died in custody say four-year wait for CPS decision is ‘form of torture’

Sister of William Cameron, who died in a police station in Berkshire in 2020, says delay has left family unable to grieve

The Guardian - UK

Behind Closed Doors review – Brazil’s descent into authoritarianism laid brutally bare

João Pedro Bim’s documentary juxtaposes propagandist newsreel footage with 1960s audio recordings of the military dictatorship debating legalised torture

The Guardian - UK

Russia 'Committed Crimes Against Humanity' In Ukraine: UN Probe

Russia has committed the crimes against humanity of enforced disappearances and torture in its war in Ukraine -- part of a systematic attack on civilians, a United Nations investigation has concluded.

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Survivors of Cartel Extermination Center Share Harrowing Testimonies Of Captivity: 'They Tortured Us Every Day'

"If they sent you to get toilet paper or asked you to torture your partner you had to do it. There were no second chances given," one man said.

Latin Times

Father and stepmother who murdered 10-year-old schoolgirl Sara Sharif lose bid to reduce prison sentences

Court of Appeal also rules that Urfan Sharif will not have to serve a whole-life order

The Independent UK

Parents Of Murdered UK-Pakistani Girl Appeal Life Terms

A UK court on Thursday will hear the appeals of the father and stepmother of a murdered British-Pakistani girl, who were jailed for life after killing the child following years of torture.

International Business Times

Former Thai police chief convicted of torture-killing of drug suspect found dead in his cell

A Thai court in 2022 had jailed six police officers, apart from Thitisan, for life for torturing and killing a drug suspect during interrogation

The Independent UK

Top US lawyer faces questioning over torture allegations

Arthur Newbold, former general counsel for Dechert, is to be subpoenaed about activities of its ex-head of fraud in London

Evening Standard

‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

Haunting accounts of torture in newly found detention centre lead to calls for an investigation into what experts say could be among the worst atrocities of Sudan’s civil war

The Guardian - UK

Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates

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The Independent UK

US says multiple offers were made to resettle Uyghurs before Thailand deported them back to China

The State Department says the United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear they may face torture and other abuse

Latin Times

Children Forced Into Helping With 'Especially Cruel' Month-Long Torture of Transgender Man, Prosecutors Reveal

New York prosecutors say a transgender man endured a month of "especially cruel" torture and that those involved even coerced children into participating.

The Guardian - US

He was tortured in Turkey. Then he faced a US immigration judge who almost never grants asylum

Harrowing story of ‘ES’, fleeing persecution to seek safety in US, shines light on judges who grant claims at exceptionally low rates – or not at all

The Independent UK

Transgender man was sexually assaulted and forced to drink urine in month-long torture campaign before being murdered: police

Sam Nordquist, 24, was found dead on February 13 in the Finger Lakes region

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Latin Times

Dismembered Bodies Belonging to Group That Went Missing During Beach Trip Found In Mexico

Mexican authorities found dismembered bodies with signs of torture belonging to a group of nine people that went missing during a beach trip

The Independent UK

Man treated 'like a dog' before murder in upstate New York, prosecutor says

Prosecutors in upstate New York say seven people were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was subjected to weeks of torture

The Guardian - UK

Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of Uyghur refugees to China

Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again

The Guardian - US

Tortured death of trans man in western New York echoes notorious 90s killing

Seven people have been arrested over ‘horrific’ death of Sam Nordquist, 24. A similar case in Wyoming once helped fuel the LGBTQ+ rights movement

AAP

Kokkinakis has surgery to end 'torture' of pec injury

Thanasi Kokkinakis has undergone surgery to try to correct the "mental and physical torture" he was suffering through a long-standing pectoral injury.

The National (Scotland)

Palestinians recount 'torture and starvation' after release from Israeli jails

HUNDREDS of Palestinians released from Israeli jails as part of the ceasefire agreement have reportedly shown signs of starvation and abuse ...

Al Jazeera

Palestinians released by Israel show signs of torture, starvation

Hundreds of Palestinians released by Israeli show signs of emaciation and abuse suffered while in detention.

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