Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah paid ‘substantial’ compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case
Daniel De Simone,Investigations correspondent and Tom Beal Supplied The UK government has paid “substantial” compensation to a man who was…
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Teen’s torture in illegal custody: Human rights panel seeks report from Haryana DGP
Taking strict note of an 18-year-old youth’s alleged torture in illegal police custody, the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has…
Jim Carrey Nearly Quit Grinch Over Makeup, Torture Expert Helped Him
Jim Carrey recently joined Vulture for an oral history to mark the 25th anniversary of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,”…
UN panel says Israel operating ‘de facto policy of torture’
The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a “de facto state policy of…
Torture Scenes, Plotting Season 5
[This story contains major spoilers from the season four finale of The Morning Show.] The Morning Show made good on…
“Violence, torture” in Israeli prisons entrenched over years | Prison
Quotable Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University, talks about the conditions and treatment of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners…
UN investigates Israel over reported torture of Palestinian detainees | Crimes Against Humanity
NewsFeed The United Nations is investigating reports of the ‘systematic and widespread torture’ of Palestinians detained by Israel, including abuses…
Torture, Leak, Outrage: The Sde Teiman Affair
Israel reels after an army insider outs herself as the source of a leak showing the rape of a Palestinian…
Rugby League Ashes: Error-prone England suffer ‘torture’ at Wembley
It is never a good sign when a head coach describes an international fixture involving his team as “torture”. Shaun…
Gaza doctors investigate ‘signs of torture’ on unnamed dead returned by Israel
Lucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondent, in Jerusalem AFP The bodies of the dead Palestinians were transferred by the Red Cross in…