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Israeli hostages held by Hamas are being subjected to rape and ‘sexualised torture’, according to UN report that describes ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’

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There are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed rape, ‘sexualized torture,’ and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7, a report from the United Nations has concluded. 

There are also ‘reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,’ said Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, who visited Israel and the West Bank from January 29 to February 14 with a nine-member technical team.

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Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

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Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.

Photographs of former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile in 2017. (Martin Bernetti / AFP via Getty)

On August

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German husband, 55, is arrested after his wife, 53, is found naked with her head shaved and broken legs and fingers in locked ‘torture’ room ‘having been held captive in a flat in France since 2011’

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German husband, 55, is arrested after his wife, 53, is found naked with her head shaved and broken legs and fingers in locked ‘torture’ room ‘having been held captive in a flat in France since 2011’

  • The woman was found inside a flat in Forbach, northern France, on Monday
  • French police were tipped off after she was able to steal her husband’s mobile phone and alert their German counterparts across the border

By Chris Jewers

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Torture, sexual violence commonly used by Russian forces in Ukraine, say experts – EURACTIV.com

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A large number of prisoners held in makeshift detention centres in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine were tortured and sexually violated, a team of international experts said on Wednesday (2 August) in a summary of their latest findings.

The Mobile Justice Team, established by the international humanitarian law firm Global Rights Compliance, has worked with Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors in the Kherson region since it was reclaimed in November after more than eight months under Russian control.

Ukrainian authorities are reviewing more

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Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program

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When Force-Feeding Is Torture | The Nation

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Mohammad Salameh isn’t going anywhere. Two straps crisscross his abdomen, pinning his shoulders to the chair. Each ankle has its own restraint, and another strap is buckled across his thighs. His handcuffed wrists rest in his lap. His body is limp. A week earlier, Salameh was so weak that when guards came to remove him from his cell, he couldn’t walk to the door. (He got a disciplinary ticket for this “offense.”) Still, as the force-feeding

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Will Biden Shut Down Guantánamo?

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These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement

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On February 13, at Wende Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Robert Adams had a fight with another incarcerated man while returning from recreation. As

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

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A former CIA member who was branded the ‘queen of torture’ and was the inspiration for the movie Zero Dark Thirty is now an online beauty influencer – and is selling coaching sessions for $600.

Former Central Intelligence Agency analyst Alfreda Scheuer, 56, spent years hunting down threats to America’s national security, but now, she spends her time coaching others and sharing makeup tips and skin care advice online.

Scheuer retired from her job as deputy chief of Homeland and

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