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Filipino victims: Justice elusive decades after martial law

Survivors of torture and other atrocities under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos are marking his martial law declaration 50 years ago by pressing their demand for justice and apology from his son, who is now the president in a stunning reversal of his family's fortunes

The Independent UK

Ukrainian ex-serviceman claims Russians tortured him in eastern city of Izium

Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires.

Reuters

Cambodian police raid alleged cybercrime trafficking compounds

Cambodian authorities said raids are underway this week at suspected cybercrime compounds across the Southeast Asian country, uncovering evidence of human trafficking, illegal confinement and torture.

Reuters

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Former Australian hostage Kylie Moore-Gilbert launches legal action against Iran’s president

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was secretly tried and imprisoned by Iranian authorities for more than two years, launches legal action against Iran's president alleging he violated torture conventions.

ABC News

Venezuela's state security agencies repress oppositions through arbitrary arrests, torture -UN

Venezuela's state security agencies use arbitrary arrests and torture, which represent crimes against humanity, to repress the country's opposition in a plan directed by President Nicolas Maduro, according to a United Nations report published on Tuesday.

Reuters

Mafia syndicate linked to torture and murder arrested across Ibiza, Malaga and Tenerife

Spanish police arrested 32 suspects in connection with large scale drug trafficking and money laundering

Liverpool Echo

Mahsa Amini: UN calls for inquiry into Iranian woman’s death

UN says Amini’s death and allegations of torture must be ‘promptly’ investigated, but Iran’s police deny she was beaten.

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UN experts: Rights abuses continue in Maduro's Venezuela

Independent experts working with the U.N.‘s human rights body say Venezuelan authorities have failed to hold to account state-backed perpetrators of violations including arbitrary executions, sexual violence and torture of civilians

The Independent UK

Inside Russian torture chamber discovered as Ukrainians found with genitals hacked off

Mutilated and tortured Ukrainian civilians were among the 450 people found in makeshift graves in Izyum after a lightning counter-offensive saw thousands of Russian soldiers flee the town

Daily Mirror

Russian torture chambers found in parts of Ukraine just liberated

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy compares Putin's forces to Nazis after investigators discover horrifying evidence of war crimes.

Daily Record

Horror as 10 torture chambers 'like the Nazis used' left by Russians in Ukraine

President Zelensky revealed the horrific discoveries had been made after areas of Ukraine had been liberated from Russian occupation

Daily Mirror

EU calls for war crimes tribunal over Ukraine mass graves

EU presidency calls for formation of international tribunal for war crimes after some 450 graves found outside Izyum.

Al Jazeera

Izyum mass grave latest in alleged Russian atrocities meted out to Ukrainians

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians as well as committing war crimes in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Ukraine: Mass grave contains mostly civilians

KYIV: Most of the people buried in a mass grave discovered in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium are civilians, Ukraine’s police chief said on Friday, based on a preliminary estimate.

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The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Putin meets Xi, asylum seeker handcuffs ‘torture’, nuclear sub timeline

Friday: Chinese and Russian leaders meet for first time since invasion of Ukraine. Plus: the seven female stereotypes in advertising

Los Angeles Times

Senate doesn’t have to release full CIA torture report, judge rules

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate does not have to release its full report detailing the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation and detention program following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The Guardian - AU

Call for UN torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s handcuffing of asylum seekers en route to medical care

Detainees report feeling humiliated sitting in handcuffs in waiting rooms during medical appointments

Chronicle Live

'I want to lay him to rest' - Murdered Jimmy Prout's brother still waiting to scatter his ashes

Eddie Prout says he won't say his final goodbyes until he knows lessons have been learned over the torture killing

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Ukrainians in liberated areas were ‘tortured with electric shocks by the Russians’

Evidence of Russiantorture of Ukrainians has emerged in areas liberated by a counter-offensive by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces.

The Independent UK

Retreating Russian troops in Kharkiv accused of torture by Ukrainians

Ukraine officials say they will seek evidence of alleged crimes

The Independent UK

Ukraine war - live: Zelensky praises troops on visit to newly liberated city

Russia ‘almost certainly’ buying weapons from Iran and North Korea, says MoD

ABC News

The Handmaid's Tale returns for season five. Here's how to watch and what to know before it starts

Catch up on the torture, death and tension of season four and find out how to watch the latest episodes.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war - live: Russia ‘almost certainly’ buying weapons from Iran and North Korea amid supply shortages

Allegations of Russian torture emerge in liberated Kharkiv region

The Guardian - AU

Russian intelligence officers and military commanders flee Crimea, Kyiv claims – as it happened

Russian intelligence officers and military commanders in south ‘urgently resettling families’, Ukraine claims

Reuters

Prosecutors seek 35-year prison term for Kosovo ex-rebel accused of torture

War crimes prosecutors called on Monday for a former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla commander to be sentenced to 35 years in prison for allegedly running a "torture chamber" during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

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