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Bhopal horror: 12-year-old girl abducted from street, battered, tortured with electric shocks

BHOPAL: A 12-year-old schoolgirl was abducted from a Bhopal street on Wednesday evening, drugged, stuffed into a sack and tortured with electric shocks by two men who intended to sell her off so that they could repay some debts.

The Times of India

Lack of justice since Grenfell fire ‘torture’ for community five years on

Karim Mussilhy, whose uncle died in the tower-block blaze, said the fight ‘gets harder and harder the longer it goes on’.

The Independent UK

'Sham torture death sentence of Brit fighters evidence of Russian depravity'

Aiden Aslin, 28, and British Army veteran Shaun Pinner have been handed a horror death sentence by pro-Moscow rebels. The two men will be allowed to appeal the judgment

Daily Mirror

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Rape used ‘systematically’ during Lebanon’s civil war, report finds

Levels of torture and sexual violence used by combatants against women and girls during the 15-year conflict shocked investigators

The Guardian - UK

Suicidal asylum seeker facing deportation to Rwanda told to get haircut or learn instrument

Man in his 40s is the victim of torture and suffers from PTSD, but officials at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre have been accused of dismissing his ‘deteriorating’ mental health

The Independent UK

Thai police sentenced to life for killing drug suspect

A former Thai police colonel nicknamed “Jo Ferrari” for his extravagant collection of luxury cars has been sentenced with five subordinates to life in prison for the torture and killing of a drug suspect from whom they were trying to extort money

The Independent UK

Jail for 'Joe Ferrari' as Thai court convicts police over torture death

A Thai court on Wednesday jailed six police officers for life for torturing and killing a drug suspect during interrogation, among them an influential police colonel famously nicknamed "Joe Ferrari" for his collection of luxury sports cars.

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Life imprisonment for police who tortured suspect to death

Six policemen, including the former chief of Muang Nakhon Sawan police station, were sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for torturing a drug suspect to death with plastic bags placed over his head.

Bangkok Post

Matilda: the cake-based torture sticks in the mind – but this delightful film is worth rewatching

All 90s children are haunted by Miss Trunchbull – but revisiting Danny DeVito’s 1996 film is a zany and joyful experience

The Guardian - AU

A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will our new PM do anything about it?

It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever.

The Conversation

Disappearances bill nears final vote

A recent seminar on May 24 hosted by the Ministry of Justice together with international organisations highlighted various stepping stones in the struggle against torture and enforced disappearances in Thailand. There was detailed discussion of the draft national law on the issue. There was also analysis of Thailand's most recent…

Bangkok Post

'I survived a labour detention camp where prisoners had their organs harvested'

Annie Yang, 56, was detained in three different camps between March 2005 and September 2006 in China before fleeing to the UK - she has shared her harrowing experience of psychological torture

Daily Mirror

UK officials in line for immunity in assisting crimes overseas, say critics

Exclusive: Draft security bill would let spies and ministers enable killings and torture, warn charity and ex-minister

The Guardian - UK

Jharkhand: Bride murdered over dowry by inserting iron rod into private parts

RAMGARH: A 19-year-old woman, married for barely six months in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, was brutally tortured for dowry by her inlaws and later killed by inserting a hot iron rod into her private parts, police and family members said on Thursday.

The Times of India

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The Hindu

Mumbai court awards convict death penalty for rape, torture and murder of woman

The 32-year-old woman was raped and assaulted inside a tempo in suburban Mumbai’s Sakinaka

The Guardian - UK

Home Office cancels flight to deport Kurdish failed asylum seekers to Iraq

Campaigners against flight say Kurdish Iraqis had endured ‘unnecessary torture in pursuit of headlines’

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Experts: Libya's Security Threatened by Foreign Fighters

Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, UN experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press. The experts also accused seven Libyan armed groups of systematically using unlawful detention to punish perceived opponents,…

The Times of India

'No right to property if parents tortured', says Haridwar SDM Puran Singh Rana

HARIDWAR: At a time when ageing has become a social challenge wherein many elderly people are exposed to emotional neglect and lack of physical and financial support because of their children, a ruling by the Haridwar sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) court has come in favour of those parents who experienced "torture"…

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Al Jazeera

Gambian government says it will prosecute exiled ex-ruler Jammeh

Yahya Jammeh has been accused of murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed in his more than 20-year rule.

Bangkok Post

Deep in the paradox

In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon.…

Liverpool Echo

James Bulger's dad wants to tell Jon Venables why he should never be freed to his face

Ralph Bulger wants Jon Venables to hear how the horrifying abduction, torture and murder of his son has shattered him and his family

Daily Record

Dad of murdered tot James Bulger wants to face Jon Venables to tell him why he should never be freed

Ralph Bulger, the father of murdered tot James Bulger, wants Jon Venables to hear how the terrifying abduction, torture and murder of his young son, aged two, in 1993 has shattered him and his family.

Dublin Live

Conversations With Friends portrays the true torture of endometriosis in women

The condition, which affects 1 in 10 women globally, was originally highlighted in the Sally Rooney novel

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Woman accuses husband, in-laws of forced conversion, harassment

LUCKNOW: A woman has accused her husband and in-laws of forcing her to convert to Islam and subjecting her to physical and mental torture in Ambedkarnagar.

The Independent UK

Filing: Chicago 'two-faced' on acknowledging police abuse

Community leaders say the city of Chicago pursues a “two-faced” strategy of acknowledging an ugly history of police brutality in public while directing its lawyers to deny that legacy in court when victims sue

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