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CNN: IRGC Threatened Families of Soccer Team Ahead of Match Against US

The families of Iran’s World Cup soccer team have been threatened with imprisonment and torture if the players fail to “behave” ahead of the match against the USA on Tuesday, CNN cited a source involved in the security of the games as saying. Following the refusal of Iranian players to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brother of Scots groom 'abducted and tortured' in India claims 'blood could be on UK Government's hands'

Gurpreet Singh Johal has expressed his terrifying fears that his brother Jagtar, who is detained by the India authorities, could be subject to the death penalty.

Daily Record

Iran players sing national anthem after being told 'families face prison or torture'

Iran's players have been put under huge political pressure by their country's theocratic government amid huge protests - and they changed their national anthem stance

Daily Mirror

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Mum of woman who disappeared from yacht describes 'torture' of not knowing what happened

Sarm Heslop went missing from a catamaran owned and operated by her American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, in the US Virgin Islands last year

Wales Online

'Torture rooms' where prisoners electrocuted found in Kherson after Russians driven out

Russia surrendered Kherson more than two weeks ago, but as investigators move in they have discovered a number of rooms seemingly used to torture members of the Ukrainian population

Daily Mirror

Ukraine investigates suspected Russian torture sites in liberated Kherson

Kyiv forces entered Kherson on 11 November after the city endured eight months under Russian occupation

The Independent UK

Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation

Ukrainian authorities are investigating sites where torture allegedly took place in the city of Kherson

The Independent UK

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UK condemns ‘abhorrent’ torture of death row inmate in Saudi Arabia

Foreign Office minister says case of Hussein Abo al-Kheir raised ‘at highest level’ and demands end to executions

The Guardian - UK

Jagtar's family concerned over new bill to give effective criminal immunity for ‘enabling torture overseas'

Jagtar has been imprisoned in India for over five years after being accused of helping to fund a Sikh-on-Hindu assassination plot, which his family strongly denies.

Daily Record

UN calls for Australia to end mandatory detention for asylum seekers

The UN Committee against Torture has urged Australia to end mandatory detention for all illegal arrivals, including children.

The New Daily

Australia must end solitary confinement of children, UN committee against torture says

‘Serious concern’ raised about ‘very low’ age of criminal responsibility in report issued after suspended tour

The Guardian - AU

How the Canada Border Services Agency tolerates and even encourages refugee mistreatment

Refugee advocates have long known about systemic problems with immigration enforcement in Canada, resulting in wrongful detentions and deportations, as well as people being tortured upon return to their countries of origin.

The Conversation

‘Soldiers without the uniforms’: Kherson couple recall anti-Russia resistance

A young couple who helped citizens and Kyiv’s army tell of torture and endurance during the Russian onslaught

The Guardian - UK

Britain is a ‘bifurcated place nowadays’, says Julian Barnes

Author and patron for torture-survivor charity criticises politicians for encouraging ‘mean-spiritedness’

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Tanzanians sue Canada’s Barrick Gold over alleged abuses at mine

Tanzanian villagers accuse Canadian mining giant of being complicit in killings and torture at the North Mara gold mine.

Reuters

Art or torture? France debates banning bullfighting

Sixteen-year old Baptiste is training to be a bullfighter in the southern French city of Arles and says lawmakers who want to ban it across the country simply do not comprehend what he calls an art.

The Independent UK

Drew Barrymore says sobriety has allowed her to ‘finally become free of the torture of guilt and dysfunction’

Actor has been sober for more than three years

Evening Standard

Drew Barrymore on getting sober: ‘I’m finally free of the torture of guilt’

The Charlie’s Angels actor wrote about her sobriety journey in an essay published in the December issue of her magazine, Drew, and said it’s been a ‘liberating’ experience

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Evening Standard

From Machine Gun Kelly to Taylor Swift: the AMAs 2022 red carpet was unbridled maximalist chaos

Torture device spikes! Red peacock feathers! Micro shorts and suspenders! Was this the most extra Sunday night ever?

Tribune News Service

Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese ‘does not object’ to release of report detailing sexual abuse, so long as it is accurate

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore does not oppose the Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s efforts to make public a report detailing sexual abuse and torture committed by area priests and laypeople over 80 years, so long as it is accurate, a spokesperson for the church said Friday.

Reuters

U.S. report says hundreds were detained, missing in Ukraine's Kherson

Hundreds of people were detained or went missing in Ukraine's Kherson region while it was under Russian control this year, and dozens may have been tortured, Yale University researchers have concluded in a report backed by the U.S. State Department.

Los Angeles Times

Kherson's newly liberated residents wonder: Who collaborated with the Russians?

KHERSON, Ukraine — First came rejoicing. Now comes the reckoning.

Daily Mirror

Missing nurse found dead with signs of torture and limbs bound in abandoned house

The family believe the abandoned house is owned by her 26-year-old boyfriend’s mum and her boyfriend is being treated as a suspect in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Independent UK

Ugandan activist living in Vermont gets deportation reprieve

Authorities in Vermont say a Ugandan activist who fled his country after he says he was tortured for his human rights work and would fear for his life if he was deported can stay another year

WEKU

Screams from Russia's alleged torture basements still haunt Ukraine's Kherson

These are just some of the chilling accounts from Ukrainians in Kherson after 8 1/2 months under Russian occupation.

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