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31/03/2012 - France

Paris torture instruments auction suspended after protests

An auction of instruments of torture due to take place in Paris on Tuesday has been cancelled after protests from France’s culture minister and human rights campaigners.

03/02/2012 - Libya

Ex-Libyan ambassador to France tortured to death, says human rights group

US-based Human Rights Watch says Libya's ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died from possible torture less than 24 hours after he was taken into custody by a Tripoli-based militia on 19 ...

Egyptian army ordered to stop virginity tests
29/12/2011 - African news explained

Egyptian army ordered to stop virginity tests

An Egyptian court ordered the Egyptian army on Tuesday to stop forced virginity tests on female detainees.

Tackling torture by Nigerian police
01/12/2011 - International report

Tackling torture by Nigerian police

The radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has unleashed a reign of terror in northern Nigeria in its bidid Nigeria of Western education and to impose Sharia law.

27/11/2011

Sharia wars - Boko Haram v the military in northern Nigeria

The Islamist sect Boko Haram has been fighting a deadly insurgency in northern Nigeria for several years ...

24/11/2011 - Nigeria - report

Nigeria: Torture and murder ... and that's just police!

The police in Nigeria are notorious for brutality, including the use of torture to extract confessions.

21/11/2011 - Cambodia

UN-backed court in Cambodia opens trial of three senior Khmer Rouge leaders

Hundreds of Cambodians have packed into a court on Monday in Phnom Penh to hear the UN-backed trial of three Khmer Rouge leaders which opened more than three decades after the era known as the ‘Killing Fields’.

29/09/2011 - Bahrain

Bahrain protester sentenced to death, medics jailed

A special court in Bahrain has sentenced a protester to death, another to life in jail and 20 medical staff to between five and 15 years in prison.

05/09/2011 - Poland - Lithuania - Romania

Poland, Lithuania, Romania must tell all on CIA black sites, says Europe rights chief

Poland, Romania and Lithuania should come clean on the “black sites”, where the US’s CIA is alleged to have tortured detainees on their soil, the European Council’s human ...

Centre for victims of torture and violence threatened with closure
04/08/2011 - On-the-spot France

Centre for victims of torture and violence threatened with closure

The centre run by the Primo Levi Association offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach to caring for victims of torture and political violence living in exile in France. Psychoanalysis and clinical psychology are blended with social and legal services to offer clients long-term support as they struggle to live with their experiences.

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