Torture

Myanmar’s ‘Lost Generation’ Of Children

The world risks creating a “lost generation” of children in Myanmar unless it takes immediate steps to protect them from the violence perpetrated by the military since it seized power in February 2021, a United Nations (UN) human rights expert has said.“The junta’s relentless attacks on children underscore the generals’ depravity and willingness to inflict immense suffering on innocent victims in its attempt to subjugate the people of Myanmar,” Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situat

19 June 2022
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Marcos Era Survivors Call For Truth

In a small huddle with martial law victims and their surviving families in Manila’s Monument of Heroes memorial park, Joey Faustino wonders what has happened to the Philippines.“Should I feel betrayed that the lies have prevailed?

28 May 2022
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Russia War Crimes Mount, Refugees Top 6 Million

Russia faced mounting accusations of war crimes in Ukraine Friday including forcing thousands of people into interrogation camps, as the number of refugees reported to have fled the conflict surpassed six million.The Russian invasion has also led to a seismic policy change by Finland, whose leaders said Thursday the previously neutral nation must apply to join NATO "without delay" – triggering a blunt warning of retaliation from the Kremlin.Throughout the 11-week conflict, Russian f

13 May 2022
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Thai Protesters Recount Torture Under Police Custody

Once the interrogation room doors shut behind Attasith Nussa, eight plainclothes officers descended upon him quickly.The leading officer approached the 35-year-old Thai pro-democracy protester and asked him if he came alone to the 29 October vigil in Bangkok.“I drove my motorcycle here alone,” Attasith recalled to Al Jazeera as telling his interrogators.Attasith said the same officer, dressed in a button-up shirt, then replied, “‘Well it’s good that you travelled alone.

7 November 2021
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Journalist Remembers Horrors Of Myanmar Jail

Journalist Nathan Maung turned to meditation when he was jailed for reporting on Myanmar's bloody coup, but even back home in sleepy Virginia, he can't forget those left behind, including a colleague still at the mercy of their jailers.In March, as the junta moved to crush mass pro-democracy protests on Myanmar's streets, about 45 soldiers arrived at Maung's office in the commercial capital Yangon, he said in an interview. As the squad battered their way through t

4 July 2021
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Escape From Myanmar: How A Reporter Fled To Safety

It was only when he boarded the plane that would fly him to Europe that Mratt Kyaw Thu finally felt safe for the first time since Myanmar's military coup on 1 February.It had been an arduous few months for the journalist who quickly found himself on the military junta's wanted list for his reporting of its deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters."I felt safe when I was on the plane, after passing immigration in Thailand, that was the moment when I felt a little bit freer,&quot

10 June 2021
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Teen Describes Junta's Brutal Treatment Of Women

Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence – a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars.Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on 14 April in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy security since the military seized power in a coup.As they were walking to a friend's house from a morning protest, she said, they were stopped by

15 May 2021
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Thailand: Land of torture?

Recently, Thai authorities confirmed that four more people were killed in a late-night attack by Muslim insurgents on a military outpost in the south.

30 July 2019
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Ending the torture trade

Shock belts, spiked batons, and electrified thumbscrews can serve no other purpose than to inflict pain on people.

19 September 2017
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