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U.S. couple detained in Uganda gets fresh charge that carries death penalty

A U.S. couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy face an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking which carries the death penalty if they are convicted, the state prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Dec 21, 2022

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 · Dec 20, 2022

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 · Dec 20, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Dec 15, 2022

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 · Dec 15, 2022