Torture
Bosniak Ex-Fighter Seeks Acquittal of Crimes Against Serbs
Edin Gadzo's defence lawyer urged the Bosnian state court on Friday to acquit his client, arguing that he could not have issued any orders to detain anyone because he was just a driver.
Pakistan Adopts Chemical Castration For Rapists
Pakistan will now chemically castrate convicted rapists after new laws were signed in by the government recently.
The country has brought in tough new laws seeking to tackle the rape epidemic in Pakistan following public outcry against sexual violence in the country.
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Council of Europe: Harassment, Violence, Acute Staff Shortage Plague Bulgarian Psychiatric Wards and Care Homes
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee urges Bulgaria to stop physical ill-treatment of psychiatric patients and social care residents and to immediately cease the shameful practice of using chains as a means of restraint
NGO Charges Croatian Police With ‘Inhumane Treatment of Refugees’
A human rights NGO, the Center for Peace Studies, filed a criminal complaint on Friday to the Croatian State Attorney's Office against "unknown perpetrators" from the police, "based on a reasonable doubt of degrading treatment and torture of 33 people and their violent, illegal expulsion from the territory of the Republic of Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina".
German court hears of ‘inhumane’ torture in Syria state prison
Two alleged former Syrian intelligence officers went on trial in Germany on April 23 accused of crimes against humanity in the first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Time to deal with prisons
This government is evidently capable of showing determination and consistency in the face of crises. Beyond the pandemic and Turkey's belligerence, though, it also has to deal with the consequences of decades of mismanagement in many fields.
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‘Fundamental problems persist’ in Greek prisons, says CoE report
Greece must urgently reform its prison system and end police violence, the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee said in its report compiled after a visit to prisons in the country in 2019.
The best-case scenario
Under the best-case scenario, May 10 or some other point mid-May will be a landmark. The government hopes that, by then, measures to flatten the notorious curve will pay off, evening off the number of new infections and deaths and perhaps even reducing them.
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Kosovo War Rape Survivors Still Waiting for First Convictions
He used to be a police reservist in Vushtrri/Vucitrn, and was also a prison guard during the war, when he took part in the illegal detention of a large number of ethnic Albanian civilians at the nearby Smrekovnica detention centre from May to early June 1999.
Moldova Not Investigating Torture Allegations, US Report Says
A US State Department report on human rights in Moldova in 2019 said the country was failing to investigate most allegations of mistreatment and torture.
The report issued on Wednesday said prosecutors only opened cases for about 10 per cent of reported allegations of torture and mistreatment in the first half of 2019.