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In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek to determine whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son

A defence treaty between Fiji and Australia should require human rights abuses vetting, after a colonel accused of torture was appointed to the Australian Army.

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

A PALESTINIAN professor with Robert Gordon University gave a powerful speech in which he detailed his experience of torture at the hands of the…