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Gig workers demand model law, labour rights, social security

Gig and platform workers protest in Delhi, demand model law for social and job security. 12M workers face exploitation, wage theft, illegal termination, mental torture and unfair labour practices.

The Hindu · Jul 27, 2023

United States is an "outlaw superpower"

There's still time to bring our outlaw country back into united community of nations confronting looming horrors

Salon · Jul 26, 2023

For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story

President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation on Tuesday that establishes a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2023

Myanmar military regime accused of murdering political prisoners

Prison officials accused of extrajudicial killings and torture with thousands arrested for their opposition to the coup.

Al Jazeera · Jul 14, 2023

Takeaways from the AP investigation into thousands of Ukrainian civilians held by Russia in prisons

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are detained in a network of formal and informal prisons across Russia and the territories it occupies, where they endure routine torture, psychological abuse and even slave labor

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2023

Ugandan president and son accused of sponsoring violence in ICC testimony

Documents containing allegations of torture filed to court in support of complaint made by Bobi Wine

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2023

Conor McGregor mocks "idiot sandwich" Michael Chandler after TUF scuffle

Conor McGregor tweeted a picture of his and Michael Chandler's altercation on The Ultimate Fighter and he vowed to "torture" his UFC rival when they meet in the cage

Daily Mirror · Jul 9, 2023

Brit captured by Russians beaten, stabbed and left to starve over five months of torture

During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten "black and blue", stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner

Daily Mirror · Jul 8, 2023

Lawsuit alleging California tech giant aided Chinese torture may proceed, 9th Circuit says

LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit alleging San Jose-based technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. and two former executives aided the Chinese government in tracking and torturing adherents of the Falun Gong religious movement may proceed to trial, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 8, 2023

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Bangkok Post · Jul 7, 2023