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Illinois lawmakers created a commission to investigate police torture more than a decade ago. Now, special prosecutors acting on behalf of Cook County are challenging it

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge last year moved cases involving allegations of torture by a former Chicago police detective to Will County, because the detective was married to another sitting Cook County judge.

Chicago Tribune

Jury rules against ex-Haitian mayor, orders $15M in damages

A federal jury has ruled in favor of three men who said in a lawsuit that the former mayor of their small town in Haiti subjected them or their relatives to a campaign of political persecution that included a killing, attempted killings and torture

The Independent UK

US jury orders former Haiti mayor to pay $15.5m for rights abuses

A US lawsuit accuses the erstwhile mayor of a rural Haitian town of murder, attempted killings and torture.

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Ukraine 'traitor' who headed Vladimir Putin's 'torture jail' killed in car bomb explosion

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

Daily Mirror

Pilot recalls moment he rescued 23 Iraqis set for beheading from torture chamber

Alan Mack, who also hunted for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, describes the stroke of luck that led him and his team to rescue 23 innocent people from a torture house in Iraq

Daily Mirror

Rights Report Accuses Syria Regime Services of Killing Thousands of Civilians

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday that it continues to monitor and track the arrests and killing under torture in Syrian regime prisons and security centers.

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.S. report cites killings, torture in Ortega's Nicaragua

The U.S. State Department cited credible reports of killings, arrests and torture in Nicaragua, as well as harsh and life-threatening conditions in the country's prisons, in an annual human rights report released on Monday.

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Lawyers and rights groups calls for greater scrutiny of DeSantis’s Guantanamo record

Lawyers who represent detainees at Guantanamo said the allegations could do ‘incredible damage’ to the standing of the United States. Richard Hall reports

The Independent UK

Police Officers Charged With Murder in 'Smothering' of Virginia Man

"What I saw today was heartbreaking," said the victim's mother. "It was disturbing, it was traumatic. My son was tortured."

Reason

Abu Ghraib survivor: Taking the hood off 20 years after Iraq war

A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration.

Al Jazeera

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Daily Mirror

Inventor of 'the most painful torture device' in history was its first victim

The Brazen Bull, a hollowed out bronze bovine sculpture, was created in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC by a man called Perilaus, who gifted it to a cruel tyrant called Phalaris

Daily Mirror

Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured

Mansoor Adayfi says the brutal force-feeding methods employed on Guantanamo prisoners like him amounted to torture. He tells Richard Hall that Ron DeSantis watched it happen

The Independent UK

UN-backed investigation accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine

Russia’s forced transfers of Ukrainian children in areas under its control amounts to a war crime, investigators say.

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Russia committed wide-ranging war crimes: UN

The UN says Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy-related infrastructure and use of torture "may amount to crimes against humanity".

Reason

No Jurisdiction in Federal Court Over Saudi Activist's Claims Against Alleged Hackers for UAE Government

"Plaintiff's allegations of political retaliation and torture are highly concerning. Nevertheless, this Court is bound by jurisdictional limits and grants Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction."

Chicago Sun-Times

Brothers who spent decades in prison for 1994 murder will wait for ruling on innocence

Brothers Reginald Henderson and Sean Tyler were convicted of a 1991 murder in Back of the Yards but claim they were tortured by detectives.

The Independent UK

Russia has committed ‘widespread’ war crimes in Ukraine, UN-backed inquiry says

The report is based on more than 500 interviews as well as satellite images and visits to detention sites and graves

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Iranian protesters recount daily beatings, forced confessions and torture tactics while in detention

Zahra, 17, recalls how she sat handcuffed and blindfolded, waiting to be tortured for the ninth day in a row. Six months into the ongoing protests against the Islamic regime, this is a daily reality for many Iranians pushing to overthrow the government.

The National (Scotland)

Claim UK tipped off India on Jagtar Singh Johal case to be heard in secret court

CLAIMS that a Scottish citizen was detained and tortured after the UK intelligence service tipped off Indian authorities are to be examined in a…

The Guardian - UK

Foreign Office asks for India torture claim to be heard in secret court

British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal was detained and says he was tortured after alleged tipoff by UK intelligence

The Independent UK

A doctor helped his patient recall childhood torture by a cult. Their story sparked a global ‘Satanic Panic’

The publication of Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir co-written by a Canadian therapist and a patient who ‘recovered’ memories of torture by Satanists, sparked international mass hysteria about child abuse and devil worship. A new film looks at the impact of the book on the world – and, importantly, on…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Banning the breeding of flat-faced dogs is the kindest thing we can do for them

“Torture breeding.” That’s how many countries refer to the breeding practices that result in dogs with grotesquely flattened snouts like those of English bulldogs, French bulldogs, pugs, Pekingese, Boston terriers, boxers and Shih Tzus. “Torture breeding” is the literal translation of the German term “Qualzucht,” which means promoting traits in…

The Independent UK

Ex-Haiti mayor accused of killing, torture faces civil trial

The former mayor of a small Haitain town accused of terrorizing his political opponents is heading to trial in federal court in Boston

The Independent UK

Recovered memories, a lurid memoir and global fear of the devil: The true story behind the 1980s Satanic panic

The publication of Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir co-written by a Canadian therapist and a patient who “recovered’ memories of torture by Satanists, sparked international mass hysteria about child abuse and devil worship. A new film looks at the impact of the book on the world – and, importantly, on…

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