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Drip, drip, drip. Why is my leaking tap keeping me awake at night?

People describe the sound of a dripping tap in the middle of the night as anything from annoying to torture. Others sleep through, seemingly oblivious.

The Conversation

New film shows how music can heal trauma suffered by migrants in Libya

Award-winning filmmaker Cécile Allegra joins us on Perspective to tell us about her new feature, "Songs of the Living". It tells the story of a group of migrants, or survivors as she prefers to call them, as they try to settle in the Aveyron region of France. These survivors are…

France 24

Spain to extradite doctor to Uruguay over torture in dictatorship years

Spain's High Court has approved the extradition to Uruguay of a doctor accused of helping the military torture dissidents during the right-wing military dictatorship in the 1970s, the court said on Monday.

Reuters

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Suzanne Capper was tortured and murdered in a case that sickened Manchester. All but one of her killers is back on the streets

Glyn Powell has a parole hearing coming up

Manchester Evening News

Watch in full as Suella Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she won’t apologise for migrant rhetoric

Home Office asked charity Freedom From Torture to take down edited video show Home Secretary’s response

The Independent UK

John Lydon hopes to highlight ‘torture’ of Alzheimer’s with Eurovision bid

Former Sex Pistol competing to represent Ireland with love letter to wife of 44 years who is living with the illness

The Guardian - UK

Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Suella Braverman

Freedom From Torture posted a minute-long clip of Suella Braverman’s exchange with Joan Salter at a meeting in Fareham, Hampshire, on Friday evening

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Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

Freedom From Torture posted a minute-long clip of Suella Braverman’s exchange with Joan Salter at a meeting in Fareham, Hampshire, on Friday evening.

The Independent UK

Home Office seeks to remove video of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

THE Home Office has asked charity Freedom from Torture to remove a video showing UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman telling a Holocaust survivor…

The National (Scotland)

UK imposes sanctions on Iran after execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari

Prosecutor general punished as smuggled recording released of Akbari saying he was subjected to ‘3,500 hours of torture’

The Guardian - UK

Inadequate help for torture victims in UK immigration centres, watchdog finds

Borders inspector blames unfounded suspicions by ministers that detainees are gaming the system

The Guardian - UK

Scale of alleged torture, detentions by Russian forces in Kherson emerges

Oksana Minenko, a 44-year-old accountant who lives in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, said she was repeatedly detained and tortured by occupying Russian forces.

Reuters

Iran: Protesters denied medical care and tortured to death in secret prisons

More than 19,000 people have been arrested since protests erupted in Iran in mid-September 2022. Human rights organisations say that dozens of them have been killed in secret detention centres. But security forces are trying to cover up these deaths by threatening family members into silence or staging the deaths…

France 24

Commentary: ‘Night doctors’ and other unsung heroes of the protests in Iran deserve our support

Dr. Aida Rostami, a 36-year-old Iranian physician, was found in dead in December, with her body showing signs of torture. According to news reports, she had lost one eye, and half her face was crushed.

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Daily Mirror

Cristiano Ronaldo told to "use his voice for good" by sister of Saudi Arabia torture victim

Cristiano Ronaldo, who has landed a deal worth £172milion a year in the oil-rich nation, has a moral duty, campaigners have stressed

Reuters

Top Iranian Sunni cleric says torture of protesters un-Islamic

A top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran's alleged use of forced confessions to convict detained protesters, as weekly demonstrations continued in the county's southeast.

The Times of India

Murder accused, 45, dies in police custody in Uttar Pradesh; kin allege torture

LUCKNOW: Raju Kumar, 45, who was named as an accused in an FIR lodged in Sitapur's Pisawan police station in connection with the murder of BSP worker Ram Lotan, died in police custody hours after he was picked up by the police in the district's Jignia village late on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Migrant shelters try to help traumatized assault survivors

Growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture on their journeys

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The Independent UK

Father-of-eight fears for life after Saudi Arabia abandons ‘moratorium’ on executing drug offenders

United Nations has accused regime of using torture to extract false confession from Hussain Abu al-Khair

Daily Record

Dad-of-eight on death row living in constant 'torture' waiting to be decapitated

Hussain Abu-al-Khair is currently living in a prison cell in Saudi Arabia with no idea when he will be killed as his sister fights for justice for his life.

Daily Mirror

Condemned dad-of-eight 'does not know when they will cut off his head' in Saudi Arabia

Hussain Abu al-Khair was driving his taxi near to the border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia when he was seized with 20,000 pills of Captagon - an amphetamine-type drug used in the Middle East

The Independent UK

An American couple moved to Uganda to become foster parents. They now could face death in child torture case

Nicholas Spencer, a former congressional staffer, and his wife Mackenzie, once a healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in DC in 2017 and moved to Uganda. Five years later, they are making international headlines for their arrest on child torture charges, Andrea Blanco reports

Daily Mirror

Jake Gyllenhaal admits filming sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston was 'torture'

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston starred as lovers in the 2002 film The Good Girl, with Jake now admitting to feeling 'awkward' while filming their sex scenes

Liverpool Echo

Criminals who felt the wrath of their rivals were stabbed and tortured

9 cautionary tales of violence and threats from the underworld heard in court during 2022

The Independent UK

An American couple moved to Uganda to become foster parents. They now could face death in child torture case

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