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Torture survivors’ plea for Australia not to abandon them after China reset

On Wednesday the delegation met with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, several prominent teal independents and Labor MP Peter Khalil, the head of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.“The Australian government should…

‘Torture’: Man poisoned by poppy seeds

A Melbourne musician has described the terrifying moment he thought he would die after eating a toxic batch of poppy seeds.Andy Jordan is one of 32 Australian adults who have been hospitalised in the last month. He has been mixing poppy…

“Torture chamber,” mass grave found in Kherson, Ukraine after Russia’s retreat

Dnipro, Ukraine - Russian airstrikes targeted gas, electricity and other key infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, knocking out heating and water supplies to a huge number of civilians just as winter sets in. As snow started…

Oklahoma executes Richard Fairchild for 1993 “torture” slaying of girlfriend’s…

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the torture slaying of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in 1993. Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 on Thursday, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester…

Andor’s Horrifying Torture Scene Wasn’t In The Script

In a recent interview with The Ringer, director Toby Haynes confessed that the ending of this particular scene (in which the door to Bix Caleen's cell slams shut, and we hear her screaming in pain) was actually a direct…

Andor Fans Don’t Know Whether To Be Impressed Or Disturbed By Episode 9’s Torture Scene

For most "Andor" fans, seeing the Episode 9 torture scene unfold and hearing about its twisted origin story was like watching the Galactic Empire evolve into something we've rarely seen before — an inherently evil and…

UN report details horrifying Ukrainian accounts of rape, torture and executions by Russian troops

War crime prosecutor of Kharkiv Oblast stands with forensic technician and policeman at the site of a mass burial in a forest during exhumation on September 16, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine.Yevhenii Zavhorodnii | Global Images Ukraine | Getty…

Colorado prisons’ restraint techniques amount to “torture” and need reform, lawmaker says

Tyler Himelstieb insisted he was OK: By the time he returned to San Carlos Correctional Facility from the hospital, the medications he’d been missing had kicked in. He was calm, he said. Stable. Prison staff disagreed. Himelstieb had gone…