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Oil giant ExxonMobil settles long-running Indonesia torture case

The trial in the 22-year-old case brought by villagers in Aceh province was due to start next week.

Al Jazeera

Exxon Mobil settles Indonesian torture case after more than 20 years

Indonesian villagers — who allege they were subjected to torture, sexual assault, beatings and watching their loved ones being shot by Indonesian soldiers contracted by ExxonMobil in 2001 — agree to a settlement. WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

ABC News

'Horrendous' Ayr High Street flats plan approved as local makes 'torture' comparison

Plan approved by councillors after residents complain about 'unworkable' bin storage and 'torture' of noisy heat pumps.

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'Positive reports and remorse' - how schoolgirl's torture gang killer talked his way out of jail

"He and the other murderers of Suzanne were guilty of a crime every bit as horrific as the Moors Murders."

Manchester Evening News

Legal loophole psychiatrist fears Lori Vallow Daybell will use to appeal murder conviction

JJ, seven and Tylee, 16, were killed after being 'tortured' and Lori Vallow Daybell has been convicted in their gruesome murders. But Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist and expert witness, says there's a lot the mother could use on her appeal

Daily Mirror

Iran expected to execute three protesters over killing of police officers

Videos released of Majid Kazemi, Saeed Yaqoubi and Saleh Mirhashemi confessing, which families say were torture-induced

The Guardian - UK

Justice for Nikki Allan as monstrous murderer convicted after 31 years of torture for family

David Boyd has been found guilty of murdering Nikki Allan in Sunderland in 1992 and will be jailed for life

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Gang who tortured and killed tragic teen all set to be released from prison

Suzanne, just 16 at the time, was tortured and beaten to death in a sickening crime that shocked the nation - with a 22-day trial in 1993 reducing a jury to tears before four people were convicted of. murder

Daily Mirror

Every murderer of a tortured teenager set on fire will soon be back on the street

Glyn Powell was part of a gang who tortured teenager Suzanne Capper and burned her alive — he is the last one of her killers still in prison but the parole board has now found him ‘manageable in the community’

Wales Online

Guantanamo Bay prisoner's drawings lay bare brutal torture in CIA’s post-9/11 program

WARNING, CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES: Abu Zubaydah, 52, was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and a landmark new report shows the brutal torture he was subject to

Daily Mirror

Tortured teen's killers soon to all be free as fourth murderer due for release

Suzanne Capper's torture and death was so horrific, the 22-day trial reduced jurors to tears

Daily Record

Suzanne, 16, was tortured, beaten and set on fire in a murder that horrified the nation. All of her murderers will soon be back on the streets

Glyn Powell had been jailed for life in 1993 for the murder of Suzanne Capper

Manchester Evening News

‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy

Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release

The Guardian - US

UN expert calls for urgent medical care for Russia's jailed Navalny

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture on Wednesday called on Russia to provide jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny with "urgent and comprehensive" medical care following reports that his health wasd deteriorating.

Reuters

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Protesters target Suella Braverman's office with brutal 'wrong side of history' plaque

Charity Freedom from Torture fixed a mocked-up blue plaque declaring that the Home Secretary had 'closed the door' on refugees as her Illegal Migration Bill comes under fire in the House of Lords

France 24

Guantanamo Bay art: Pakistani artist depicts 20 years of detention

Ahmed Rabbani was held in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 20 years and was eventually released without charge in February. Ahmed says his paintings denounce the torture he suffered at the hands of his captors and is asking the US military to return the artwork he…

The Hindu

Ambasamudram custodial torture | CB-CID registers fourth case against Balveer Singh

The CB-CID police, investigating the alleged custodial torture of suspects by suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Balveer Singh, have registered one more case against him and his sub-ordinates of the Kallidaikurichi police station.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Health of Survivors of Houthi Prisons Deteriorates

Dozens of survivors from the Houthi prisons have seen their health deteriorate as a result of the physical and psychological torture they suffered while in detention, Yemeni sources revealed. Medical sources in Marib revealed that journalists Tawfiq Al-Mansouri and Harith Hamid were transferred to hospital after their health deteriorated days…

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Ambasamudram custodial torture | Suspended ASP Balveer Singh also booked under SC/ST Act

Two more cases have been registered by the CB-CID, probing custodial torture charges, against the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Ambasamudram Sub-Division, Balveer Singh, taking the total number of cases filed against him to three.

Chicago Sun-Times

Not invited to the coronation? Celebrate here with a chip butty, some mushy peas and maybe a pint of good English ale

On Saturday morning, perhaps I’ll torture my family — and possibly the neighbors — with a chorus or two of “God Save the King.”

Al Jazeera

Detained by Russian occupiers: ‘They jail you and forget’

Liliya Pshenichnaya says Russian forces held her for 60 days in a process that was arbitrary, frightful, and confused.

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights review – a deliciously dark Brontë with its jagged edges restored

Coal-black humour propels Brontë’s tale of murderous desire, animal torture and family abuse

The Guardian - AU

‘Indefinite torture’: the desperate wait for Australian mothers in Syria to get their children out

Families in trapped in the Roj camp say the environment is ‘toxic’ for their children’s mental and physical wellbeing

The Hindu

Mehbooba demands probe into Poonch attack, civilian’s death in ‘custody’

“Hundreds of youth from south Kashmir have been put in jails,” she said.

Reuters

Scores of world figures urge Putin to free Navalny in open letter

Scores of famous figures, including writers and actors, have signed an open letter urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to free opposition politician Alexei Navalny and to end what they called his torture in prison.

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