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Zelensky says he’s had 10 attempts on his life: ‘It means there’s only 10 people willing to have me killed’

‘That’s not bad, when people are being tortured, when the bodies of people are found in wells’

The Independent UK

Family of 'Hotel Rwanda' hero sues Rwandan government for kidnapping and torture

Paul Rusesabagina saved more than 1,200 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan government convicted him of terrorism in a trial that human rights groups call a sham.

WEKU

Chechen troops 'execute wounded RUSSIAN soldiers and operate torture chamber near Bucha'

The Kadyrovtsy, used as a PR tool in Russian President Vladimir Putin's deadly war, allegedly murdered their own comrades and 'operated a torture chamber' in Bucha

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How the barbaric lessons learned in Syria came to haunt one small Ukrainian village

West of Kyiv, a Russian unit led by Syria veterans set up camp and began a drunken, murderous campaign

The Guardian - UK

Kyiv police find three bound men they say were executed by Russian occupiers

Ukrainian police said on Saturday they had found the bodies of three civilian men in the Bucha district north of Kyiv, bound and in some cases gagged, with several gunshot wounds that police said indicated they had been tortured.

Reuters

'Beatle' Gets Life Sentence for ISIS Beheadings

Alexanda Kotey, part of the ISIS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was sentenced to life in prison Friday, with relatives of victims addressing him and another member directly in the US court. Kotey, a 38-year-old former British national, pleaded guilty in September, admitting his role in the deaths of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tribal man dies within a day of judicial custody in Tiruvannamalai

The family refuses to accept the body of Thangamani, alleging police torture and demanding a probe

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UK sends war crimes experts to investigate rapes, torture and deaths in Ukraine

Britain will send experts including on sexual violence to help Ukraine gather evidence which could be used to prosecute Vladimir Putin and his generals in the International Criminal Court

Daily Mirror

Ukraine names 10 Russian soldiers accused of war crimes in Bucha

Ukraine’s prosecutor general accuses soldiers of ‘torture of peaceful people’

The Independent UK

Priti Patel faces first legal challenges as Rwanda refugee plan branded 'immoral'

Charity Freedom from Torture has warned the Home Office it could pursue a judicial review and demanded documents and risk assessments. Charity boss Sonya Sceats said the Rwanda plan is 'immoral'

Daily Mirror

Russian returned home in prisoner swap with U.S. says he was tortured in Liberia

A Russian pilot who returned to Moscow from the United States this week as part of a prisoner swap said on Thursday he had been tortured in custody in Liberia before his extradition to America.

Reuters

I went through ‘conversion therapy’ – no trans person should face that torture again

To avoid more people suffering, the UK government must ban this abhorrent practice outright, not only for gay people

The Guardian - UK

Murdered Jimmy Prout’s brother invited to crucial meeting about review into torture death

Eddie Prout hopes lessons can be learned after Domestic Homicide Review into vulnerable Jimmy's death is published

Chronicle Live

Priti Patel facing High Court challenges over Rwanda plan for asylum seekers

Charities and the PCS union have taken the first steps towards legal action over the controversial policy.

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Priti Patel asked for details of Rwanda policy ahead of possible legal challenge

The charity Freedom From Torture wrote to the Home Office on Wednesday requesting further information, with a view to bringing a High Court claim.

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel’s Rwanda asylum seeker plan faces first legal challenge

Charity Freedom from Torture says it has ‘serious concerns’ about lawfulness of policy

Chronicle Live

'It’s an insult to Jimmy': Brother of torture victim's anger as killers’ accomplice set to be freed from prison

Kay Rayworth was jailed for 12 years for her role in brutal 2016 murder, in Percy Main, but will be freed next month

The Independent UK

CIA ‘queen of torture’ from Zero Dark Thirty is now an online beauty influencer

Alfreda Scheuer, played by Jessica Chastain in 2012 movie, has given herself career makeover to help ‘midlife women’, writes Justin Vallejo.

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Inside abandoned swingers club with grimy torture dungeon and decaying 'playrooms'

Daniel Sims, 33, revealed inside La Chambre swingers club in Attercliffe, Sheffield, which once boasted 25,000 members who flocked to enjoy its "playrooms"

Wales Online

'Torture won't fix me' Protestors gather in Cardiff against transgender conversion therapy

The protest took place at the UK Government Hub at Central Square in Cardiff

The Guardian - UK

Torture photos added to evidence in trial of alleged Dutch drug kingpin

Images show woman who looks like smuggler known as Godmother of the Coke, who disappeared in 2019

ABC News

Wife of Australian man jailed and believed tortured in Iraq criticises federal government's response

The wife of an Australian man suspected of being tortured in an Iraqi jail dismisses assurances from the Foreign Minister that her husband has not been forgotten by the federal government.

The Guardian - UK

‘Women need to be ready’: the Ukrainian city where mums and daughters are learning to shoot

Reports of rape and torture by occupying Russian forces have driven thousands of women in Ivano-Frankivsk to enrol in firearms classes

Chronicle Live

Britain's Got Talent viewers say escapologist act was 'fake' as they spot unopened padlock

Escapologist Andrew Basso left BGT judge Simon Cowell open-mouthed as he performed Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell stunt

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mauritanian Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner Sues Canada

A former Guantanamo detainee who spent 14 years without trial and whose story was told in the hit film "The Mauritanian," is suing Canada over its alleged role in his detention. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 51, claims that Canadian authorities provided false information concerning the period when he was a permanent…

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