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The Nigeria Police Force said its officers will no longer torture suspects in their custody.    The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi stated this in an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, April 2.   His comment comes after the report of arrest of some suspected killers of …

    A former Mississippi, USA sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday, March  19 to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men. Police officer, Hunter Elward received a 241-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Tom Lee in a Jackson federal court. Before sentencing, Judge Lee …

Hamas weaponized sexual violence Israeli officials say that everywhere Hamas terrorists struck on Oct. 7 — a rave, military bases along the Gaza border and kibbutz after kibbutz — they brutalized women. A two-month investigation by The Times established that the attacks against women were not isolated events, but part …

Khloe Kardashian has disclosed that her 30s have been “torture”.  The 39-year-old explained that she is looking forward to turning 40 because the past decade has not been favourable for her.  During the Season 4 premiere of The Kardashians, Khloe Kardashian told her family, “Most people are scared to turn …

A hearing opens in Madrid that will see Julio Pacheco Yepes recount his torture in 1975 for opposing the dictatorship. For the first time since Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, a victim who says he was tortured by the dictator’s regime will testify before a Spanish court in a hearing …

In late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration began an experiment at Guantánamo Bay. They set up teams of law enforcement officers to try to obtain voluntary confessions from men who had spent years in …

The military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Friday threw out confessions the Saudi defendant had made to federal agents at Guantánamo Bay after years of secret imprisonment by the C.I.A., declaring the statements the product of torture. The decision deprives prosecutors of a key piece of evidence …

Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers have pleaded guilty to all state charges against them stemming from the torture and abuse of two Black men, one of whom was shot in the mouth during a raid.   Former deputies Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, and Daniel Opdyke …

Most women and children in Afghanistan are living in poverty and under a threat of violence. by Anonymous Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Inter Press Service May 16 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security …

Yulia Paievska, 53, widely known in Ukraine by her nickname Taira, has reached folk hero notoriety. She said the abuse started immediately after she was recognized at a checkpoint near Mariupol and taken prisoner, along with her driver, on March 16. “For five days I had no food and practically …