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Americans still support asylum for immigrants fleeing persecution, poll finds

As the Biden administration prepares to end the use of a Trump-era border measure that restricts access to asylum, most Americans continue to support protections for immigrants who are fleeing persecution and torture abroad.

Los Angeles Times

Exiles: Meet the Iranian women taking up arms in Iraqi Kurdistan

Her death has sparked the biggest uprising against the Iranian regime since the mullahs came to power more than 40 years ago. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died on September 16 after being arrested by Iran's morality police for violating the country’s strict dress code for women. Since then,…

France 24

Houthis Abuse Dozens of Detainees in Sanaa Prison

For the fourth day in a row, dozens of detainees in the central prison in Sanaa continued their hunger strike. They are protesting their detention, torture, and humiliation by Houthi militias. Houthis, according to the relatives of detainees, responded to the hunger strike by stepping up its exemplary punishment of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Kosovo tribunal convicts former KLA commander in first war crimes verdict

In a milestone ruling judges at the Kosovo tribunal on Friday convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a prison where torture took place during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

Reuters

White Torture by Narges Mohammadi review – solitary savagery

An Iranian political activist, now in jail herself, interviews 12 female prisoners of the Islamic Republic about their experiences

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine uncovers children's torture chamber set up by Vladimir Putin's troops

Dmytro Lubinets revealed evidence which showed that detained children were "practically not" given food and that they were given water every other day in Kherson, Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian investigators uncover children’s cell in Russian ‘torture chamber’

Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights says they found ‘10 torture chambers in Kherson region’

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Ukraine news – live: Putin says he won’t agree to Christmas ceasefire

There will be no Christmas or New Year’s ceasefire in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Lake Alice report finally documents the truth

More than 50 years after children started being dumped at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital, a report by a Royal Commission of Inquiry has finally documented what those children went through and how the Crown responded to their systemic torture and abuse.

Newsroom.co.nz

Ukraine accuses Russia of torturing children in Kharkiv region as missile attack thwarted

Ukrainian authorities claim they have discovered evidence of children being tortured in territories formerly occupied by the Russian army.

ABC News

‘Going through torture’: Megan Thee Stallion testifies against Tory Lanez

Rapper takes stand in case against Canadian-born musician, emotionally recounting night when she was shot

The Guardian - US

New migrant measures treat asylum seekers like criminals, campaigners say

The five-point plan, which includes ramping up immigration raids and housing migrants in disused holiday parks, was described as ‘deeply disturbing’.

The Independent UK

Woman denies threatening Pattaya torture victim

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The former Thai wife of a foreigner whose Cambodian employee was cruelly assaulted by two Polish men last month has denied threatening the woman.

Bangkok Post

UK Sanctions 30 People, Including Iranians

Britain on Friday announced sanctions targeting 30 people around the world who it described as "corrupt political figures, human rights violators and perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence." It said the sanctions were coordinated with international partners to mark International Anti-Corruption Day and Global Human Rights Day and included individuals involved…

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The Guardian - UK

Qatar World Cup whistleblower was tortured, claims family

A Qatari whistleblower who raised concern about the treatment of workers at World Cup stadiums was tortured, according to his family

Al Jazeera

Ukrainians allege abuse, beatings at Russian ‘filtration’ camps

Ukrainians describe continuous interrogations and torture at sites that Russia says protect civilians from war.

Newcastle Herald

Mount Hutton woman accused of masterminding horrific abduction to apply for bail

A Mount Hutton woman accused of masterminding a horrific abduction where another woman was repeatedly tortured over a 24-hour period before allegedly attempting to influence a witness in the case will launch a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court next week.

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise

Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’

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Daily Mirror

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' family wants all social workers to wear bodycams to spot abuse

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was subjected to a sickening campaign of abuse and torture before he was killed by his stepmum in June 2020 in a case that rocked the nation

The Conversation

The UN committee against torture has found Australia still has work to do

Content warning – this article discusses acts of violence, suicide, and deaths in custody.

Los Angeles Times

ICE accidentally released the identities of 6,252 immigrants who sought protection in US

Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website this week.

ABC News

Queensland to change laws to allow United Nations physical access to mental health in-patient wards

More than a month after the UN's torture prevention body was denied access to sites where people were detained, new laws will be introduced in Queensland to give inspectors greater access.

Evening Standard

Scandal-hit Manston centre visited by European torture monitor group

A ‘rapid reaction visit’ was carried out the site in Kent between November 25 to 28

The Guardian - UK

Conditions at Manston asylum centre prompt torture monitor visit

Council of Europe’s ‘rapid reaction visit’ followed reports of diphtheria outbreak and squalid conditions

The Independent UK

‘Every second felt like eternity’: Inside the torture chambers of Ukraine’s occupied northeast

Detention, rape, beatings and executions. Ordinary Ukrainians endured unimaginable horror in areas captured by Russian troops. Bel Trew in Balakiya, Izium, Pisky-Radkivski speaks to those who survived as they try to pick up their shattered lives

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