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Asylum Seekers Go on 'Holiday' in Afghanistan After Sending Fake Torture Videos to Enter Britain – Exposed!

Afghan asylum seekers accused of faking torture videos to enter UK, with claims some later returned to Afghanistan for holidays, sparking scrutiny.

International Business Times UK

‘They tortured me for things which are completely false': son of ex-Gabon leader's two-year nightmare

In part two of The Standard’s interview with Noureddin Bongo, we look in detail at the allegations against him in Gabon and the torture he endured.

Evening Standard

UN human rights expert says Russia steps up repression to silence opposition to war in Ukraine

A U.N. expert reports that repression in Russia is escalating, targeting civilians, journalists, and Ukrainian prisoners of war

The Independent UK

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Doctors won’t abandon patients at al-Shifa as Israel destroys Gaza City

The hospital director, arrested and tortured by Israel, has just seen his brother and other family members killed.

Al Jazeera

Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain

The Guardian - UK

Chicago’s ‘Midnight Crew’: CNN’s Omar Jimenez dives into one of America’s darkest chapters of police violence

‘For this to happen at the scale that it did for as long as it did, there were breakdowns at every single step of the way,” Omar Jimenez said of the two-decade campaign of violence by the Chicago police department, which he explores in a new podcast

The Independent UK

Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman

At the end of our conversation, Nathan (a pseudonym) kept repeating, almost to himself: “Perhaps we should have done more. Perhaps we could have done more. Perhaps there was something we could have done about the camp itself. About the dogs. We kept on hearing the dogs. Every night.”

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Judge ‘alarmed’ by Trump deportations that expose migrants to torture — but she can’t stop it

Judge slams ‘cavalier acceptance’ of deportation scheme sending African nationals to Ghana, only for the country to send them elsewhere

The Independent UK

Ghana insists immigrants deported by the US have been sent home, contradicting lawyers

Ghanaian authorities insist on their claim that the group of 14 African immigrants deported to Ghana by the U.S. have been returned to their home countries

The Independent UK

39 Ancient Execution Methods That Reveal Just How Cruel History Could Be

Ever wondered how torture and capital punishment like in the olden times?

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Imran Khan’s son says father kept in ‘death cell’ as he files UN appeal alleging torture: ‘No one is safe’

Kasim Khan, political leader’s 26-year-old son, claims his father has not been allowed to see his doctor and his access to lawyers is restricted

The Independent UK

After years living quietly in Florida, Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ must face accusations in court

Parviz Sabeti crafted a low-profile life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit over atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere

The Guardian - US

Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees – with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture

Secret memos made public this week show Trump administration’s arrangement with Nayib Bukele to jail Venezuelans

The Independent UK

I Can’t Get Over That Intense Torture Scene In Terminal List: Dark Wolf, And One Star Told Me Why It Was A ‘Massive Turning Point’ For Their Character

This feels like a turning point.

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A look at 27 custodial deaths in Tamil Nadu: Most victims were poor and marginalised

For P Marimuthu, July 30, 2025 was supposed to mark the end of a long episode of harassment by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. A day ago, the 48-year-old tribal man had been acquitted by an Udumalpet court in a ganja case—one that activists say he was falsely accused in.…

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Trump DOJ official’s vulgar courthouse threat just got exposed, and the $5 million deal behind it is even worse

Trump paid El Salvador to torture migrants with zero legal help.

Al Jazeera

ICC opens war crimes hearing against Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony

Kony faces charges for the Lord’s Resistance Army campaign of torture and abuse in Uganda in the early 2000s.

The Independent UK

Appeals court hears from US military contractor ordered to pay $42M to former Abu Ghraib detainees

An appeals court is set to hear oral arguments from a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture and mistreatment of three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago

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‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture

The Guardian - UK

Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse

Empowering for some, deeply traumatic for others, the former detainees in Mehran Tamadon’s documentary paint a harrowing picture of systematic maltreatment

The Independent UK

Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia

A new report has found 55% were subjected to pro-Russian indoctrination and 10% subjected to torture and cruel treatment

The Independent UK

UN decries crimes including gang rape, murder, torture in Congo conflict over last year

The U.N. human rights office says Congo’s armed forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have committed gang rape, sexual slavery, torture, killings of civilians and other “horrific” atrocities in eastern Congo this year

Euronews

Russia plans to withdraw from Europe's anti-torture treaty

Moscow's decision will likely be seen as inconsequential given growing condemnation of widespread human rights abuses committed in Ukraine.

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer refuses to condemn Nigel Farage's mass deportation speech

Keir Starmer has refused to criticise Nigel Farage’s speech where he outlined his plans to deport 600,000 asylum seekers which he called a…

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Man Who Hasn’t Slept In 2 Years Is Begging Experts To Solve His Medical Mystery: “My Eyes Are Melting”

“I can't take this torture much longer,” said Oliver Alvis, a train driver who claims he last slept in December 2023.

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