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Brother of Jagtar Singh Johal claims he is being ‘mentally tortured’ through unwarranted detention

Family says Johal’s conditions have ‘worsened’ since acquittal last month in one of nine terror cases

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto Pinochet

Joe Pritchard ran continuously on a treadmill for 24 hours inside a pub to raise money for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A special investigation by chief international correspondent Bel Trew and Rateb al-Qaissy reveals allegations of brutal treatment of Palestinians in Israeli facilities including rape, torture, medical neglect and death. Israel rejects all accusations of wrongdoing

One in four police personnel in India support the idea of mobs acting as judge, jury and executioner in matters they consider grave. And 22 percent of police personnel believe that killing ‘dangerous criminals’ is better than giving them a legal trial.

Lying on a side table just out of shot was a gift that the Ukraine leader had intended to present to the president before their clash

Death threats, kidnapping, unlawful detention, torture and assassination are some of the crimes being committed against journalists in Nigeria, according to a recent report. Another recent report details how the police and politicians are responsible for 70% of these harassment cases.

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off…