AI describes ‘wound that has no edges’ in disturbing torture experiment IN FULL The Independent UK · Oct 1
Supreme Court Hands Trump a Major Win With 'Evil' Emergency Order Described as 'Reckless Cruelty' The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to resume rapid deportations to third countries, despite warnings from critics about due process, persecution and torture risks. International Business Times UK · Oct 1
Man builds AI torture chamber after discovering artificial intelligence ‘feels pain’ One AI model describes ‘a wound that has no edges’ when placed in the experiment The Independent UK · Oct 1
UK announces 31 new sanctions against Russian propagandists and torturers Among those being sanctioned are seven people involved in ‘heinous’ re-education camps for children The Independent UK · Oct 1
Palestinian-born mosque leader can be deported from US on foreign policy grounds, judge rules Sarsour Salah said being sent back to the West Bank ‘means the end of my life’ The Independent UK · Sep 30
Spain to investigate claims its soldiers have tortured migrants in Ceuta Amnesty International says it has documented beatings, humiliations, summary expulsions and racial profiling in Ceuta and the Spanish government has ordered the military to identify any individuals potentially responsible. Euronews · Sep 30
Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab law The Guardian - UK · Sep 30
Mali army and Russian fighters accused of killing dozens of civilians Mali’s armed forces and Russian Wagner Group personnel committed war crimes including killings and torture of civilians during joint operations between 2023 and 2025, Amnesty International has said in a new report documenting abuses across several regions of the country. Radio France Internationale · Sep 30
US Supreme Court lets Trump administration resume third-country deportations The US Supreme Court has permitted the deportation of migrants to third countries without the chance to present their concerns. This decision supports the Trump administration's immigration policies aimed at rapid expulsions. Many deported migrants have faced severe risks, including potential persecution and violence in these third countries. Legal challenges… The Economic Times · Sep 30
U.S. Sends Immigrants to Countries It Warns Americans Not to Visit From kidnappings to torture, lawyers say third-country removals expose vulnerable people to the risks they fled in the first place. Capital & Main · Sep 29
US Has Sent Over 25,000 Migrants to Third Countries as UN Experts Warn of Torture Risk After Deportation UN-mandated experts say more than 25,000 people deported from the US to third countries may face torture, detention, disappearance, trafficking and unlawful onward removal. International Business Times UK · Sep 28
US deportations are triggering a 'cascade' of rights abuses, UN experts warn The Trump administration's policy of deportating thousands of people to countries with which they have no links is "increasing risks of torture and ill-treatment and enforced disappearance", a panel of independent UN experts warned on Monday. An investigation by an international consortium of journalists including FRANCE 24 reporters determined last… France 24 · Sep 28
Russia plans seven new 'superprisons' despite war recruitment emptying its jails Seven complexes holding more than 20,000 inmates are planned for 2035, including one in Russian-occupied Kherson, even as the prison population has dropped from 465,000 to 282,000 since 2021, largely because inmates have been recruited as contract soldiers for the war in Ukraine. Euronews · Sep 28
5 Vikram and Betal Riddles That Sharpen Your Judgment of Situations Over People Riddle 1: The Three Suitors and the Dead PrinceA princess dies of grief after her beloved prince is killed. Three men each play a role in what follows: one burns his own body on the funeral pyre out of devotion, one collects the prince's bones from the ashes, and one… Times Life · Sep 26
International Business Times UK · Sep 25 Trump Administration Turns to Supreme Court to 'Halt That Chaos' Over Third-Country Deportations The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene after an appeals court invalidated DHS guidance on third-country removals and required stronger procedural protections
France 24 · Sep 23 ICC convicts Central African Republic rebel leader of crimes against humanity The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted former Central African Republic militia commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani of torture and unlawful imprisonment. Said oversaw a detention centre in the capital Bangui infamous for its brutal conditions during the country's sectarian civil war.
The Independent UK · Sep 23 ICC convicts former Central African Republic militia commander of torture Judges at the International Criminal Court have convicted former Seleka rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani of persecution and torture as crimes against humanity committed while he ran a prison in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic
France 24 · Sep 22 Trump admin's hardline deportation policy an 'attempt to break the global refugee and asylum system' François Picard is pleased to welcome Washington Post national security reporter Adam Taylor. The Forbidden Stories consortium, involving France 24 and 25 other media outlets, has spent six months investigating the thousands of people abruptly deported from the United States to third countries, amid concerns over due process and their…
Radio France Internationale · Sep 21 Inside the US system deporting migrants through African countries More than 25,000 people have been deported from the United States to third countries since Donald Trump returned to power – often to places they have no connection to and sometimes on another continent. Hundreds have been sent to Africa, where at least 12 countries have agreed to receive them.…
Euronews · Sep 19 UN condemns 'shocking pattern' of sexual violence by Russian troops in Ukraine Russia was added in May to the UN Secretary-General's list of countries credibly suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict — codified into international law decades ago as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Euronews · Sep 19 What happens if a solar farm catches fire? Europe’s biggest battery test centre is finding out Battery ‘torture testing’ simulates car washes, sandstorms and wildfires for the benefit of the energy transition.
The Guardian - US · Sep 18 Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence
The Guardian - US · Sep 17 US court sentences ex-Syrian official who ran notorious ‘punishment wing’ to 60 years Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured
The Independent UK · Sep 17 Man accused of ties to bin Laden and tortured after 9/11 has 20-year Guantanamo detention reviewed A man initially accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida figure and who was tortured in CIA custody has appeared at a hearing to review his detention
The Independent UK · Sep 17 Former Syrian official convicted of torture under Assad faces sentencing in the US A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad's regime is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday