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Medieval Torture Museum explores painful history

LOS ANGELES — Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel — and some downright evil — devices they’ll encounter as…

The Orange County Register

DHS accidentally informed Cuba that deportees had sought protection in US

The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that some of the immigrants the agency sought to deport to the island nation had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture, officials said Monday.

Los Angeles Times

Body of arrested Iran protester ‘showed shocking signs of torture’, say family

Security forces have killed more than 500 protesters, according to human rights campaigners

Evening Standard

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Iranian artist Elham Modaresi being 'tortured' in prison and denied medical care, says sister

In a prison West of Tehran, Iranian artist Elham Modaresi's will to survive is being gradually broken. Her sister says Elham is facing torture and being denied medical care.

ABC News

Biden decision to block asylum access at ports of entry caused hundreds of migrants to die, report finds

Report says that migrants expelled because of Title 42 continue to be targeted for ‘horrific violence, kidnappings, torture, extortion, rape’

The Independent UK

Iranian government accused of 'sham trials' and 'torture' as protestors face executions

Iran has conducted the first known execution in relation to the anti-government protests, hanging a man for "waging war against God". Now there are fears many more could face execution under these "sham trials".

ABC News

Americans still support asylum for immigrants fleeing persecution, poll finds

As the Biden administration prepares to end the use of a Trump-era border measure that restricts access to asylum, most Americans continue to support protections for immigrants who are fleeing persecution and torture abroad.

Los Angeles Times

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Exiles: Meet the Iranian women taking up arms in Iraqi Kurdistan

Her death has sparked the biggest uprising against the Iranian regime since the mullahs came to power more than 40 years ago. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died on September 16 after being arrested by Iran's morality police for violating the country’s strict dress code for women. Since then,…

France 24

Kosovo court jails rebel commander in first war crimes verdict

The Hague (AFP) - A special Kosovo court in The Hague issued its first ever war crimes verdict on Friday, sentencing a former rebel commander who ran a makeshift torture centre to 26 years in jail.

AFP

Kosovo court jails rebel commander for 26 years

The Hague (AFP) - A special Kosovo court in The Hague found a former rebel commander guilty on Friday of murder and torture and jailed him for 26 years in its long-awaited first war crimes verdict.

AFP

Houthis Abuse Dozens of Detainees in Sanaa Prison

For the fourth day in a row, dozens of detainees in the central prison in Sanaa continued their hunger strike. They are protesting their detention, torture, and humiliation by Houthi militias. Houthis, according to the relatives of detainees, responded to the hunger strike by stepping up its exemplary punishment of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kosovo tribunal convicts former KLA commander in first war crimes verdict

In a milestone ruling judges at the Kosovo tribunal on Friday convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a prison where torture took place during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

Reuters

White Torture by Narges Mohammadi review – solitary savagery

An Iranian political activist, now in jail herself, interviews 12 female prisoners of the Islamic Republic about their experiences

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine uncovers children's torture chamber set up by Vladimir Putin's troops

Dmytro Lubinets revealed evidence which showed that detained children were "practically not" given food and that they were given water every other day in Kherson, Ukraine

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The Independent UK

Ukrainian investigators uncover children’s cell in Russian ‘torture chamber’

Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights says they found ‘10 torture chambers in Kherson region’

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Putin says he won’t agree to Christmas ceasefire

There will be no Christmas or New Year’s ceasefire in Ukraine

Newsroom.co.nz

Lake Alice report finally documents the truth

More than 50 years after children started being dumped at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital, a report by a Royal Commission of Inquiry has finally documented what those children went through and how the Crown responded to their systemic torture and abuse.

ABC News

Ukraine accuses Russia of torturing children in Kharkiv region as missile attack thwarted

Ukrainian authorities claim they have discovered evidence of children being tortured in territories formerly occupied by the Russian army.

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‘Going through torture’: Megan Thee Stallion testifies against Tory Lanez

Rapper takes stand in case against Canadian-born musician, emotionally recounting night when she was shot

The Independent UK

New migrant measures treat asylum seekers like criminals, campaigners say

The five-point plan, which includes ramping up immigration raids and housing migrants in disused holiday parks, was described as ‘deeply disturbing’.

Bangkok Post

Woman denies threatening Pattaya torture victim

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The former Thai wife of a foreigner whose Cambodian employee was cruelly assaulted by two Polish men last month has denied threatening the woman.

AFP

US slaps sanctions on Chinese officials over Tibet rights

Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over "serious human rights abuse" in Tibet, including alleged torture and killings of prisoners and forced sterilization.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK Sanctions 30 People, Including Iranians

Britain on Friday announced sanctions targeting 30 people around the world who it described as "corrupt political figures, human rights violators and perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence." It said the sanctions were coordinated with international partners to mark International Anti-Corruption Day and Global Human Rights Day and included individuals involved…

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Australia’s prisons have always been hotbeds of police abuse — and officers won’t hold themselves accountable

Australia’s flippant refusal to comply with UN torture investigators is just the tip of the iceberg, and it’s a problem we’ve known about for decades.

The Guardian - UK

Qatar World Cup whistleblower was tortured, claims family

A Qatari whistleblower who raised concern about the treatment of workers at World Cup stadiums was tortured, according to his family

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