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Why is a UN torture prevention committee visiting Australia?

From October 16 to 27, United Nations will pay a special visit to look at some of the hidden corners of Australian society.

The Conversation

Falcons’ Kyle Pitts’ return could boost the offense

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Falcons tight end Kyle Pitts missed his first NFL game Sunday, and that was torture.

Tribune News Service

Lebanon to start sending Syrian refugees back home despite ‘risk of abuse’

Lebanon says programme is ‘voluntary’ but rights groups warn other returnees have faced arrests, detention, enforced disappearance and torture

The Independent UK

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Spy agency Asio ‘acquiesced in the use of torture’ when detaining Egyptian refugee, court told

Sayed Abdellatif has been held in immigration detention since 2012 after being convicted of terrorism offences in Cairo in a discredited trial

The Guardian - AU

Signs of torture on bodies found in Ukraine town liberated from Russia

In recaptured Lyman, Kim Sengupta finds evidence of Russian atrocities and Ukrainian commanders ready to administer their own justice

The Independent UK

Gene Collier: Four more weeks? Make it stop

Without torturing the point, just about anything outside of the various forms of torture banned by Article III of the Geneva Convention can be endured for four weeks.

Tribune News Service

New NT laws to allow detention oversight

The Northern Territory parliament has passed laws to allow unfettered access to detention centres to reduce the risk of torture or other degrading treatment.

AAP

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Attorneys: Inmate endured 'torture' during execution attempt

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month

The Independent UK

Wife of Scots cheese wire murder victim faced two decades of torture searching for answers over death

George 'Dod' Murdoch was working a night shift on Thursday, September 29, 1983, when was brutally strangled to death with cheese wire.

Daily Record

‘Barbaric’ practices still used in Victorian prisons, human rights advocates say

Andrews government urged to establish independent watchdog to comply with anti-torture obligations ratified by Australia in 2017

The Guardian - AU

England asked to boycott World Cup opener and "refuse to give Iran global stage"

Iranian women face “daily harassment, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment” and the recent death of Mahsa Amini has led to more than 130 protestors being killed - but FIFA have ignored campaigners' calls for expulsion

Daily Mirror

Paris trial opens over crimes against humanity in Liberia

A former Liberian rebel is going on trial in Paris on charges of crimes against humanity, torture and acts of barbarism during the West African country’s civil war in the 1990s

The Independent UK

Former Liberian rebel charged with war crimes awaits Paris trial

Kunti Kamara charged with torture, cannibalism and complicity in crimes against humanity during civil war between 1989 and 1996

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine police say bodies of more than 500 civilians found in Kharkiv including children

Corpses showed signs of gunshots, explosions and torutre, Ukrainian official says

The Independent UK

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France 24

‘Important for the victims’: Former Liberian rebel leader Kamara faces trial in Paris

The trial of former Liberian rebel leader Kunti Kamara opens on Monday in Paris. French authorities are prosecuting Kamara, who stands accused of rape, murder and torture during the country’s first civil war in the 1990s, under universal jurisdiction.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

An epic Game 1 win by the Phillies was postseason torment at its best

ST. LOUIS — Playoff baseball is like watching a loved one defuse a bomb. It is not something that you enjoy. It is something that you endure. Every pitch is a tick on a timer that is counting down to some unknown number, every swing a snip at a tangle…

Evening Standard

‘Greenwashing’, LGBTQ+ ‘torture’, and human rights abuses: why COP27 is proving controversial

With just one month to go, the climate summit is already set to be the most controversial yet

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Putin must lose or he will invade other European countries, Zelenskiy says – as it happened

Ukraine’s president makes comments during address to other European leaders

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ABC News

Ukraine war latest: Russian missile razes Ukraine apartment block, Putin orders Russian nuclear plant takeover

A missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia leaves people buried under the rubble, while Vladimir Putin orders a state-controlled nuclear operator to take over running Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

The Canberra Times

Advocates call on UN body to recommend spit hood ban

A UN committee is investigating Australia's compliance with anti-torture rules.

Wales Online

Asylum seeker honoured for voluntary work during pandemic was plucked from Swansea and placed in detention centre

Richard Tshimanga Nomba, who claims he was tortured in his home country, has since been released but fears he could be taken away again at at any moment

Daily Mirror

Box of gold teeth pulled from Ukrainians found at horror Russian torture chamber

Photo evidence indicates that gold teeth were pulled from Ukrainian torture victims with dozens of dentures also seen in another big plastic box in the liberated Pisky-Radkivski village in the eastern Kharkiv region

The Independent UK

Gold teeth pulled from mouths of living and dead Ukrainians, claims Kyiv

The discovery has been reported to the War Crimes Commission for investigation

Daily Record

'Employee-from-hell' pulled loaded shotgun on boss and tortured him with dog chain

Ronald McLennan tortured boss Ian Robertson with a dog chain and threatened him with a loaded shotgun in a 20-year campaign of 'violent bullying'.

Evening Standard

Box of teeth found in Russian torture chamber as Vladimir Putin’s forces retreat

A search in the dilapidated house in liberated village also uncovered evidence of people being buried alive as a form of torture

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