Law enforcement officers have identified four Russians who beat civilians with sticks and escorted them to an execution site during the Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast. Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Quote: “The SSU has identified four more Russian invaders who committed war crimes against civilians during the occupation of Kyiv Oblast. The individuals […]
JERUSALEM — Abuses against Palestinians held in Israeli jails have risen since Hamas‘ Oct. 7 attacks, former detainees and rights organizations have warned, with one group alleging that prison officers are taking “revenge” on inmates for the militant group’s atrocities. Data compiled by Israeli rights group HaMoked said the number of “security inmates” — prisoners […]
The Russians are using the same methods of persecution and torture in all occupied territories of Ukraine. Torture is a key tool for the Russians to obtain information. Source: representatives of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre Details: Human rights activists said that during the occupation of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast, people were tortured with beatings […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday called on the U.S. state of Alabama to halt its first planned execution of a prisoner by nitrogen gas asphyxiation this month, saying it could amount to torture and violate U.S. commitments under international law. Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is […]
Jan. 11—The 60 years-to-life prison sentence being served by a Greensburg woman for her role in the 2010 torture killing of Jennifer Daugherty has been upheld by a state appeals court. In an opinion released Thursday, a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected a defense request to invalidate the sentence imposed in 2022 […]
The Nigerian army has arrested two soldiers after a viral video allegedly showed them torturing a civilian. In the footage, a man in military fatigues and another in civilian clothing repeatedly kick and whip a third shirtless man, as he repeatedly pleas for mercy. “No, no sir, abeg! [I beg]. I will confess sir, abeg!” […]
The state’s second-highest court has ruled against an appeal by a man who had been convicted of animal cruelty and other crimes after trying to run over a homeless man in Asheville and striking a baby carriage in which he kept his cat. The North Carolina Court of Appeals agreed unanimously that Scott Everett Ford’s […]
(FOX40.COM) — A sentence was delivered on Tuesday for the 2021 case of a Rancho Cordova man who used the online dating application known as Tinder to meet one victim who he tortured and another he murdered in Placer County. Placer County District Attorney reported that 31-year-old Damon Allen Benson was sentenced to 71 years […]