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Three Americans who were jailed by Iran for more than a year and accused of being spies while hiking along the border with Iraq are suing their former captors, hoping to persuade a judge to award them damages for the torture they say they endured. The lawsuit is pursued by…

Since 2018, mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group, an effective secret army of the Kremlin, have been active in Central African Republic. They protect the impoverished country's regime in exchange for valuable mineral resources and deploy a massive propaganda campaign to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused…

Paul Urey, 45, was reported to have died in captivity in July.

Paul Urey, 45, was captured whilst volunteering in the war-torn country in April

‘He was a brave man who dedicated himself to saving people’

Brit aid worker Paul Urey died after being held by Russian-supported separatist groups in eastern Ukraine and his body has been returned with "possible unspeakable torture" said Ukraine's foreign minister

Paul Urey, 45, was reported to have died in captivity in July.

Paul Urey was charged with ‘mercenary activities’ by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, who say he died of ‘stress’

Labour raises questions in the Commons over Johnson’s alleged actions as foreign secretary in the case of activist Jagtar Singh Johal