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Abuse rife in New Zealand state care: royal commission

A royal commission has found hundreds of thousands of New Zealand children were abused, tortured or killed while in state and faith-based care.

AAP

Bangladeshi students allege police torture after protests crackdown

More than 150 reported dead and thousands injured as peaceful demonstrations turn violent

The Guardian - UK

Victims of trafficking and torture were unlawfully housed in Essex asylum site RAF Wethersfield, court hears

Home Office is failing to properly screen vulnerable migrants before sending them to RAF Wethersfield, lawyers say

The Independent UK

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Can-Am Torture-Tested Its Upcoming Motorcycles, Almost Hard To Watch

Can-Am has just released a new video showcasing how it's torture testing its new electric motorcycles before they're released. Here's what you need to know.

RideApart

Syrian official who oversaw prison where alleged abuse took place arrested by US officials

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse took place has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of immigration fraud

The Independent UK

MAGA's tortured return to the Bush era

Torture Memo author John Yoo has hitched his wagon to the MAGA train

Salon

EU-backed court convicts former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter of murder and abuse during 1999 war

Judges at a European Union-backed court have convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter with involvement in the murder of one person and the illegal detention and torture of nearly 20 more during his country’s war for independence from Serbia in 1999

The Independent UK

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Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture

The Guardian - US

An Ohio man held a woman hostage in a ‘torture chamber’ for weeks. Now he’ll be trapped in prison for 50 years

Shane Edward Hooper used a baseball bat and metal chain as ‘instruments of torture’

The Independent UK

Refugee torture survivors still fear repression

A Chilean political refugee who was tortured by the Pinochet regime and a Bangladeshi dissident say governments harassing diasporas in Australia is common.

AAP

Kenyan police watchdog probes police link to mutilated bodies

The nine bodies with ‘visibile marks of torture’ were found in an abandoned quarry near a police station.

Al Jazeera

Man gets 226-year prison sentences for killing 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one

A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced in Anchorage Friday to 226 years in prison

The Independent UK

UAE Dissidents Sentenced To Life In Mass Trial

Controversial mass trial in the UAE sentences dissidents to life in prison, drawing criticism for due process violations and torture allegations.

Top News

Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

The cruelties inflicted years ago at Nyayo are barely taught in schools. Now survivors want to help the nation remember

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One Samouni brother comes home in Gaza, recalls months of Israeli torture

His younger brothers are still held by Israel, while he came home exhausted and in pain after months of torture.

International Business Times

Released Gaza Detainees Allege Torture By Israel Amid War

Blindfolded, beaten and sometimes bitten by dogs, Gazans released from Israeli prisons allege being tortured amid the Israel-Hamas war, which rights groups say has worsened conditions for detainees.

The Independent UK

Man tortured and starved girlfriend’s children because he ‘didn’t want them to have to poop’

The children had been subject to malnourishment, restrainment with zip ties and beatings before their neglect was reported to CPS

Al Jazeera

Israel’s Netanyahu slams release of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital chief

PM awaits report from Israeli intelligence as released prisoners claim they were tortured and abused in Israeli jails.

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Al Jazeera

Israel frees hospital chief with prisons ‘full’ of Gaza captives

The detainees endured ‘almost daily torture’, claims al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya.

The Independent UK

Trump mocked after claiming he was ‘tortured’ in Georgia jail booking after turning himself in voluntarily

Republican presidential candidate makes wild claim in latest fundraising email to supporters

Latin Times

Donald Trump fundraising email claims he was "tortured" in Georgia mugshot arrest

The email was sent out to promote coffee mugs featuring Trump's mug shot

The Guardian - US

Trump mocked for claiming he was ‘tortured’ in Georgia mugshot arrest

Former US president made the claim in a fundraising email that advertised coffee mugs featuring his mugshot

The Guardian - UK

The Investigator review – harrowing documentary details search for justice after Balkan wars

Viktor Portel’s film follows Czech investigator Vladimír Dzuro as he returns to sites of torture and death, and meets survivors as well as supporters of perpetrators

Al Jazeera

‘Happening again’: Guantanamo victims say Israel using ‘US-style’ torture

Former prisoners who suffered in US detention facilities say Israeli abuse of Palestinians follows the same patterns.

International Business Times

Activists File Torture Complaint Against Iranian Held In France

Activists said Thursday they were filing a torture complaint against an Iranian citizen held in France who was reportedly a former senior figure in state television in the Islamic republic.

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