#torture-and-abuse

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1 week 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
1 month 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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