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UN rights chief asks Venezuela to release arbitrary detainees, end torture

Venezuela should release arbitrarily detained individuals and end torture, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Saturday at the end of a trip to the country.

Reuters

Major health delays causing mental torture for Scotland's sick patients

No one should have to wait almost a year to find out if they have cancer, writes Record View.

Daily Record

Human Rights Watch urges Morocco not to extradite Saudi Shi'ite

A human rights watchdog called on Morocco on Friday not to extradite a Shi'ite Muslim to his homeland of Saudi Arabia, citing fears he could face torture and an unfair trial there.

Reuters

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Yazidi women kept as slaves by IS appeal to UN to intervene in their fight for compensation

Lawyers demand support from Australia for five victims of Khaled Sharrouf in test case for international law on torture survivors

The Guardian - UK

HRW slams Chadian forces over rights violations during anti-government protests

The NGO Human Rights Watch has denounced murders, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances, and acts of torture linked to the clampdown against anti-governments demonstrations by the authorities in October.

Radio France Internationale

Yemenis Angry over Death of 2 Detainees Under Torture in Militia Prisons

The death of two Yemenis under torture in Houthi prisons sparked widespread human rights anger on Monday, amid accusations that the militias had killed 300 civilians abducted in the same way over the course of eight years. According to Yemeni human rights reports, one civilian and one military detainees died…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brisbane man charged with assault and torture of children

A 29-year-old Brisbane is accused of torturing and assaulting three children, including a five-year-old boy, who is in a coma.

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Torture charges, boy critically injured

Police have charged a man with grievous bodily harm and torture after three children were injured, one critically, southeast of Brisbane.

AAP

Man accused of torturing five-year-old boy

A Queensland man has been charged with 14 offences, including torture, after a five-year-old boy was found with critical injuries.

The New Daily

Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? You’d need to torture me to get me to answer that’

Juliet, 74, volunteer with Extinction Rebellion, meets Dennis, 73, retired service engineer

The Guardian - UK

‘Dirty wee torturers’: Northern Irish man tells of British army abuse during Troubles

Jim Auld, 72, was one of 14 ‘hooded men’ subjected to interrogation methods since ruled as torture

The Guardian - UK

A year after Kazakhstan's deadly riots, questions persist

A year after deadly rioting in Kazakhstan that was the worst unrest in the Central Asian country’s three decades of independence, human rights activists say many government promises of accountability and democratization remain unfulfilled

The Independent UK

Australia's twice extended deadline for torture prevention is today, but we've missed it again

Today marks the (already twice extended) deadline for Australia to meet its international obligation to implement torture prevention bodies. The role of these bodies is to monitor treatment and conditions in places where people are deprived of their liberty, like prisons and detention centres.

The Conversation

Australia misses another deadline to implement international anti-torture treaty

Australia misses another deadline to implement an international anti-torture agreement, with the country's three largest states accused of dragging their feet and bickering with the Commonwealth over funding.

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Daily Record

Seething Willie Miller rips into Aberdeen 'torture' as ashen-faced Jim Goodwin admits 'we’re deeply sorry'

The club icon was left gutted after watching Jim Goodwin's side suffer travel sickness once again in their latest pasting.

Daily Mirror

From executions to torture: The dire state of human rights in Cristiano Ronaldo's new home

Cristiano Ronaldo is set to make his debut in Saudi Arabia, but questions have been raised about the human rights violations committed by the regime of his new home

The Conversation

Drip, drip, drip. Why is my leaking tap keeping me awake at night?

People describe the sound of a dripping tap in the middle of the night as anything from annoying to torture. Others sleep through, seemingly oblivious.

France 24

New film shows how music can heal trauma suffered by migrants in Libya

Award-winning filmmaker Cécile Allegra joins us on Perspective to tell us about her new feature, "Songs of the Living". It tells the story of a group of migrants, or survivors as she prefers to call them, as they try to settle in the Aveyron region of France. These survivors are…

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Reuters

Spain to extradite doctor to Uruguay over torture in dictatorship years

Spain's High Court has approved the extradition to Uruguay of a doctor accused of helping the military torture dissidents during the right-wing military dictatorship in the 1970s, the court said on Monday.

Manchester Evening News

Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened Manchester. All but one of her killers is back on the streets

Glyn Powell has a parole hearing coming up

The Independent UK

Watch in full as Suella Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she won’t apologise for migrant rhetoric

Home Office asked charity Freedom From Torture to take down edited video show Home Secretary’s response

The Guardian - UK

John Lydon hopes to highlight ‘torture’ of Alzheimer’s with Eurovision bid

Former Sex Pistol competing to represent Ireland with love letter to wife of 44 years who is living with the illness

Evening Standard

Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Suella Braverman

Freedom From Torture posted a minute-long clip of Suella Braverman’s exchange with Joan Salter at a meeting in Fareham, Hampshire, on Friday evening

The Independent UK

Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

Freedom From Torture posted a minute-long clip of Suella Braverman’s exchange with Joan Salter at a meeting in Fareham, Hampshire, on Friday evening.

The National (Scotland)

Home Office seeks to remove video of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

THE Home Office has asked charity Freedom from Torture to remove a video showing UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman telling a Holocaust survivor…

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