Torture
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, Conflict and arms, Global development, Human rights, Human trafficking, Laos, Law, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Organised crime, Scams, South and Central Asia, Thailand, Torture, World news
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such a…
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Myanmar army detaining two-year-olds as proxies for parents, witnesses tell UN
Investigators warn in a report that ‘frequency and brutality’ of atrocities in the country are continuing to e…
- Asia Pacific, China, Human rights, Islam, Law, Religion, Torture, United Nations, Uyghurs, World news, Xinjiang
Five key points from the UN report on Xinjiang human rights abuses
Damning report cites human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in north-west Chinese provinceChina has co…
- Global development, Human rights, India, Law, MI5, MI6, Religion, Scotland, Sikhism, South and Central Asia, Torture, UK news, UK security and counter-terrorism, World news
British Sikh activist ‘tortured in India after tip-off from UK intelligence’
Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017A Briti…
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Taliban presiding over extensive rights abuses in Afghanistan, says UN
Allegations include 160 killings of ex-government officials and security forces, torture and punishmentsTaliba…
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UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intel…
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Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured pri…
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Sex workers fighting for human rights among world’s most ‘at risk activists’
Exclusive: Front Line Defenders report says rights defenders working in sex industry face ‘targeted attacks’ a…
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‘They tortured me,’ Australian Yang Hengjun says as he awaits verdict after trial in China
Australian writer says he fears hidden cameras captured forced confessions during interrogationsYang Hengjun, …
- Asia Pacific, China, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Human rights, Islam, Politics, Torture, Uighurs, UK news, World news, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
China’s treatment of Uighurs amounts to torture, says Dominic Raab
Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina’s…
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UK criticised for its treatment of worker ‘tortured’ in China
Simon Cheng, a former UK consular employee, has only been offered a two-year visaQuestions have been raised ab…
- Asia Pacific, China, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Hong Kong, Human rights, Law, Politics, Protest, Torture, UK news, World news
Former UK employee in Hong Kong ‘tortured in 15-day China ordeal’
Simon Cheng, who worked at consulate, alleges repeated mental and physical abuseA former employee of the Briti…