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UN says Russia abuses prisoners in Ukraine

Russian forces and their armed affiliates have subjected Ukrainian prisoners to extrajudicial executions, sexual violence and other abuses, the U.N. human rights office said in a report on Tuesday.

Reuters

Suspected mental torture: CPO attempts suicide at Vadakara police station

Timely intervention by colleagues saves his life

The Hindu

Killer attacked in revenge for 'Snapchat torture' of man left for dead outside hospital

Declan Davidson set about Ben McCulloch after it is believed he watched him carry out a sadistic attack on his pal Stephen Quigley before his body was found near the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Glasgow Live

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Locked Up: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week

These are the people put behind bars in our region during the last seven days

Manchester Evening News

Morning Mail: ex-soldier exposes traumatic torture survival course, Italy votes, voice campaign begins

Monday: a former soldier has filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission with disturbing allegations. Plus: the top 10 strangest kids shows

The Guardian - AU

Australian soldier alleges torture survival course involved simulated child rape and left him with PTSD

The defence force’s alleged handling of the training course prompted a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission

The Guardian - AU

Brit captured by Russians beaten, stabbed and forced to listen to Soviet music all day

Aiden Aslin was one of five Brits recently released from captivity by Russian-backed forces and he has revealed the horrific ordeal he went through including torture and being stabbed

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Sri Lankans describe abuse as Russian captives in Ukraine

Seven Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine say they were beaten and tortured for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region

The Independent UK

US President Joe Biden says US will never recognise annexation as UN investigators find evidence of war crimes

US President Joe Biden says Russian referendums aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine are a sham, as UN investigators find evidence of war crimes including executions and torture.

ABC News

Ukraine war – live: Nato to step up support for Kyiv after Russian ‘sham’ referendums

Moscow to ‘use sham votes to further escalate war’, warns Jens Stoltenberg

The Independent UK

Ukraine finds evidence of torture on bodies exhumed from Izyum burial site

Ukraine says three more grave sites have been located in areas retaken by Ukrainian forces.

The Independent UK

Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators

Investigating teams reported evidence of executions, torture and sexual violence in civilian areas

The Guardian - UK

Moment mum who faked her own kidnapping to hide at ex's house is confronted by police

Sherri Papini vanished for 20 days back in 2016 before mysteriously reappearing, claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured - but police rumbled her web of lies

Daily Mirror

A year after border crisis, Haitian asylum seekers face discriminatory treatment, report says

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

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Reuters

Many POWs freed by Russia had suffered torture - senior Ukraine official

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said on Thursday the percentage of released Ukrainian prisoners of war who had suffered torture while in Russian detention was "rather high".

WEKU

In a retaken border village, Ukrainians point to signs of Russian abuse of civilians

Villagers describe allegations of abuse and officials say they found a torture chamber in Kozacha Lopan, in the Kharkiv region, which Russian forces invaded and took over at the start of the war.

Manchester Evening News

'My heart is broken', says mum of Manchester aid worker killed in Ukraine as British prisoners released by pro-Russia forces

The body of Paul Urey, 45, showed signs of 'unspeakable torture' after he died in captivity

Daily Record

Dad had boiling water poured over him during 'grotesque' 12-hour torture ordeal

Anthony Richardson, 29, abducted the victim from a street close to his home before subjecting him to a 12-hour campaign of torture.

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COUNTERPOINT: Two plus two make five in Biden’s student loan handout

Someone once said that if you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Even still, it is difficult to manipulate the data to the point where you can justify the White House’s student loan handout. Simply put, the numbers do not add up.

France 24

Ukrainian prosecutors investigate evidence of Russian torture chambers

As Ukrainian forces have regained territory in the east, evidence of torture chambers used under Russian occupation has come to light.

Manchester Evening News

'Grotesque' torturer kidnapped dad and poured boiling water on genitals in 12-hour ordeal

Anthony Richardson, 29, was part of a gang who snatched a rival from the street and tortured him for 12 hours

Daily Mirror

Woman dated one of Britain's most wanted with no idea he tortured dad to death

Stella Paris spoke for the first time about her experience living with a man she imagined spending the rest of her life with before discovering he was a brutal killer

The Independent UK

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

Reuters

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.

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