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World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges

Almost 60 Palestinian journalists detained since 7 October 2023 have been beaten, starved, subjected to sexual violence, and tortured in Israeli custody.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I wondered if I would be a coward or not': five Ukrainian men on how war has changed them

A 24-year-old Ukrainian ex-marine endured three years of Russian captivity involving beatings, torture, starvation, and medical neglect, and returned to a changed family.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I could not stay silent': Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail

Israeli prison guards raped and sexually tortured a Palestinian detainee, causing severe injuries, prolonged bleeding, and denial of medical care.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Cruelest forms of torture': freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Palestinian detainees experienced systemic torture, medical neglect, and starvation during prolonged Israeli detention and were released without being charged.
fromenglish.elpais.com
5 months ago

Maksim Butkevich, victim of Russian torture: I told my interrogator he was going to break my shoulder, but he said he knew what he was doing'

Cynicism is a weapon of war, and Russia is a sharpshooter. Its president, Vladimir Putin, is considering withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (ECPT), to which it has been a party since 1998. A political mockery that deepens the open wound of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in Russian prisons, victims of terrible abuse. Maksim Butkevich, 48, is one of them.
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