torture

Prisoners were routinely abused, tortured and left to die at a Syrian military hospital in Damascus, according to a damning report published on Tuesday. Sick prisoners sent from detention centers for treatment at the Tishreen Military…
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Human rights groups on Friday called for an investigation into the death in prison of an Iranian man arrested over last year’s protests, alleging he had been “horrifically tortured.” Javad Rouhi, 31, was arrested in September 2022 in…
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Former Algerian defense minister Khaled Nezzar has been indicted in Switzerland on charges of committing crimes against humanity in the 1990s during the civil war, state prosecutors said Tuesday. The Office of the Attorney General of…
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A federal judge has again refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former Abu Ghraib inmates against a military contractor they accuse of being complicit in torture at the infamous Iraqi prison. The horrific mistreatment of prisoners…
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Human Rights Watch has accused Turkish border guards of shooting, torturing and using excessive force against Syrians seeking to flee their war-racked country into Turkiye. It urged Ankara to investigate border guards, hold those…
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On a medical ship off the Italian coast, rescued migrants are coloring in a map of Africa, where many started their perilous journeys toward Europe. The countries are brightly colored in yellow, green, purple and red. Libya however, a…
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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the bodies of civilians bearing signs of torture and painted with neo-Nazi symbols and the Nazi swastika were found in the basements of liberated buildings in Mariupol. "Civilian bodies were…
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Indonesia’s human rights commission said on Wednesday it had found evidence of torture at an illegal drug rehab facility run by a powerful local official, as it released an investigation report into the case that shook the nation in…
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A court in Germany will begin hearing a case Wednesday against a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity for torturing and killing inmates at a government-run prison in his home country. Federal prosecutors say the doctor,…
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Former Colombian soldiers arrested in Haiti in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse have accused local authorities of torture, saying they’ve been burned, stabbed and hit in the head with a hammer, among other things. Details of…
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