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California governor vetoes limits on solitary confinement

Bill vetoed by Gavin Newsom would have imposed variety of limits on a practice UN expert says can be a form of torture.

Al Jazeera

Gov. Newsom vetoes bill to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, citing safety concerns

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Thursday to limit solitary confinement in California's jails, prisons and private detention centers, rejecting advocates' hopes to restrict a practice that many experts have likened to torture.

Los Angeles Times

Brit dies in Qatar after telling friends he'd been held and tortured by secret police

Marc Bennett, 52, had been employed by Discover Qatar, part of state-owned Qatar Airways, to promote the country ahead of the World Cup, but had resigned

Daily Mirror

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Marc Bennett: Travel executive’s widow details husband’s ‘torture’ in Qatar before his death

Nancy Bennett says her husband endured ‘mental and physical torture’ during a three-week detention before he died

Evening Standard

Anti-torture organisation says extrajudicial killings in Libya are endemic

A report released by the World Organisation Against Torture says that extrajudicial murder and torture have become widespread in Libya, with nearly 600 people losing their lives over the past two years to law enforcement agents or militia members.

Radio France Internationale

Sick abuser tried to Facetime partner's dad to make him watch as he tortured her

Lewis Dunn put out cigarettes on his victim, stabbed her and threatened to slice off her toes in the horror assault that only ended when she managed to escape.

Daily Record

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

Los Angeles Times

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Ex-junta leader Camara jailed on eve of Guinea stadium massacre trial

In tonight’s edition: the ex-leader of Guinea’s military junta is jailed on the eve of his trial. He and 10 others stand accused after more than 150 people were murdered and over 100 women raped at an opposition rally in 2009. Elsewhere, Nigeria continues to deal with the worst flooding…

France 24

Thug tried to Facetime girlfriend's dad to make him watch as he tortured her

The nightmare ordeal began after Dunn threatened to stab his girlfriend's mum

Liverpool Echo

Rats in Top Valley home have been 'torture' for Nottingham mum

"I couldn't stay in my property, the smell was disgusting"

Nottingham Post

How to get away with torture, insurrection, you name it: The techniques of denial and distraction that politicians use to manage scandal

The U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection intends to hold another public hearing, likely the last before it releases its official report. The hearing had been scheduled for Sept. 28, 2022 but was postponed because of Hurricane Ian.

The Conversation

UN says Russia abuses prisoners in Ukraine

Russian forces and their armed affiliates have subjected Ukrainian prisoners to extrajudicial executions, sexual violence and other abuses, the U.N. human rights office said in a report on Tuesday.

Reuters

Suspected mental torture: CPO attempts suicide at Vadakara police station

Timely intervention by colleagues saves his life

The Hindu

Killer attacked in revenge for 'Snapchat torture' of man left for dead outside hospital

Declan Davidson set about Ben McCulloch after it is believed he watched him carry out a sadistic attack on his pal Stephen Quigley before his body was found near the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

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Manchester Evening News

Locked Up: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week

These are the people put behind bars in our region during the last seven days

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: ex-soldier exposes traumatic torture survival course, Italy votes, voice campaign begins

Monday: a former soldier has filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission with disturbing allegations. Plus: the top 10 strangest kids shows

The Guardian - AU

Australian soldier alleges torture survival course involved simulated child rape and left him with PTSD

The defence force’s alleged handling of the training course prompted a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission

Daily Mirror

Brit captured by Russians beaten, stabbed and forced to listen to Soviet music all day

Aiden Aslin was one of five Brits recently released from captivity by Russian-backed forces and he has revealed the horrific ordeal he went through including torture and being stabbed

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The Independent UK

Sri Lankans describe abuse as Russian captives in Ukraine

Seven Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine say they were beaten and tortured for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region

ABC News

US President Joe Biden says US will never recognise annexation as UN investigators find evidence of war crimes

US President Joe Biden says Russian referendums aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine are a sham, as UN investigators find evidence of war crimes including executions and torture.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war – live: Nato to step up support for Kyiv after Russian ‘sham’ referendums

Moscow to ‘use sham votes to further escalate war’, warns Jens Stoltenberg

The Independent UK

Ukraine finds evidence of torture on bodies exhumed from Izyum burial site

Ukraine says three more grave sites have been located in areas retaken by Ukrainian forces.

The Guardian - UK

Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators

Investigating teams reported evidence of executions, torture and sexual violence in civilian areas

Daily Mirror

Moment mum who faked her own kidnapping to hide at ex's house is confronted by police

Sherri Papini vanished for 20 days back in 2016 before mysteriously reappearing, claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured - but police rumbled her web of lies

Miami Herald

A year after border crisis, Haitian asylum seekers face discriminatory treatment, report says

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

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