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‘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.

France 24

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…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

‘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

Evening Standard

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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

ABC News

Advocates call on UN body to recommend spit hood ban

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

The Canberra Times

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

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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

Daily Mirror

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

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

The Independent UK

'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'.

Daily Record

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

Evening Standard

Ukraine nuclear workers recount abuse, threats from Russians

Workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are recounting fears of being abducted and tortured or killed by Russian forces who seized control of the facility and the city of Enerhodar

The Independent UK

Wife of Ukrainian fighter calls for Russia to release POWs

The wife of a Ukrainian fighter imprisoned by Russia called for his release on Tuesday as a U.N. rights official said monitors had documented cases of Ukrainian prisoners being tortured, in two cases to death.

Reuters

Gangster who gardai believe organised kidnap and torture of Kevin Lunney died of heart failure

A pathologist said his heart was in such poor condition, he could have collapsed at any time.

Irish Mirror

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The Independent UK

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an AP investigation has found

The Independent UK

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an AP investigation has found

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi militia inciting the torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners

Task Force Rusich, linked to the Wagner Group, advises its fighters not to report the capture of Ukrainians to Russian commanders

Daily Mirror

Captured Brit waterboarded and Tasered by sadistic Russians in months of torture

Dylan Healy has spoken of the months of torture, including beatings and waterboarding, that he suffered after being ambushed by Russian troops alongside fellow aid worker Paul Urey in Ukraine

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Al Jazeera

California governor vetoes limits on solitary confinement

Bill vetoed by Gavin Newsom would have imposed variety of limits on a practice UN expert says can be a form of torture.

Los Angeles Times

Gov. Newsom vetoes bill to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, citing safety concerns

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Thursday to limit solitary confinement in California's jails, prisons and private detention centers, rejecting advocates' hopes to restrict a practice that many experts have likened to torture.

Daily Mirror

Brit dies in Qatar after telling friends he'd been held and tortured by secret police

Marc Bennett, 52, had been employed by Discover Qatar, part of state-owned Qatar Airways, to promote the country ahead of the World Cup, but had resigned

Evening Standard

Marc Bennett: Travel executive’s widow details husband’s ‘torture’ in Qatar before his death

Nancy Bennett says her husband endured ‘mental and physical torture’ during a three-week detention before he died

Radio France Internationale

Anti-torture organisation says extrajudicial killings in Libya are endemic

A report released by the World Organisation Against Torture says that extrajudicial murder and torture have become widespread in Libya, with nearly 600 people losing their lives over the past two years to law enforcement agents or militia members.

Daily Record

Sick abuser tried to Facetime partner's dad to make him watch as he tortured her

Lewis Dunn put out cigarettes on his victim, stabbed her and threatened to slice off her toes in the horror assault that only ended when she managed to escape.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

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