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Society & Culture News tagged with torture

Thirteen Letters Against Torture: Letter 2 ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, violence, torture, protection, rights, suffering )

Cher
- 46 days ago - change.org
Amnesty International has compiled powerful letters written by [THIRTEEN] influential thinkers - from an exiled poet to a former military interrogator to an esteemed actor and activist - that boldly make the case against torture.
16 comments
Police: TV Contestant Killed Actress Girlfriend
Society & Culture  (tags: society, crime, murder, torture, celebrity, Bachelor, death, law, police )

Dee
- 60 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LOS ANGELES - A self-proclaimed preacher who was on the TV beauty pageant "The Sexiest Bachelor in America" will be arraigned next week for allegedly torturing and murdering his girlfriend, an ex-adult movie actress.
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Raped at 8 and Left for Dead, a Victim Raises Her Voice
Society & Culture  (tags: society, crime, abuse, rape, torture, violence, sexual assault, women, survivors )

Dee
- 60 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- For nearly 20 years Jennifer Schuett has held onto every memory of the night she was abducted from her bedroom, raped and left for dead.
13 comments
Mexico Police Agents Are Killed in Alleged Retribution By Cartel
Society & Culture  (tags: government, Mexico City, crime, death, Drug Cartels, police, murder, torture, retaliation, corruption, drugs, gangs )

Dee
- 132 days ago - online.wsj.com
MEXICO CITY-Twelve undercover federal police agents were captured, tortured, and executed by a relatively new and dangerous Mexican cartel calling itself La Familia, or The Family, officials said Tuesday.
8 comments
Three Arraigned for Kidnapping, Torture of Albany Woman
Society & Culture  (tags: society, crime, police, violence, abuse, torture, kidnapping )

Dee
- 163 days ago - capitalnews9.com
ALBANY, N.Y-Three people were arraigned Friday on charges stemming from what officials are calling a "horrific" kidnapping and torture of an Albany woman.
3 comments
How MI5 Colluded in My Torture: Binyam Mohamed Claims British Agents Fed Moroccan Torturers Their Questions
Society & Culture  (tags: torture, MI5, CIA, secret prisons )

Eleanor
- 261 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
MI5 directly colluded in the savage 'medieval' torture in Morocco of Binyam Mohamed, the Guantanamo inmate who was last week released to live in Britain.
22 comments
Justice For Tesslyn O'Cull .. Please Sign Petition
Society & Culture  (tags: child, abuse, torture, murder, death )

Joycey
- 324 days ago - uk.youtube.com
My blood is boiling over this. This sweet little angel was tortured by her mother's boyfriend. It ended with her dying in pain. Please read the story and sign petition on sight. You have to confirm it in your e-mail. JUSTICE FOR TESSLYNN O'CULL
95 comments
Pakistan: Five Women Buried Alive in Total Impunity
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, women, ethics, crime, death, torture, rights )

Julia
- 439 days ago - awid.org
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is deeply shocked and condemns in the strongest terms the killing of five Pakistani women, including two minors, who were buried alive for having decided to marry men of their choice.
46 comments
Gitmo For U.S. Children: Center for Retarded Kids Uses Electroshock Therapy
Society & Culture  (tags: children, crime, humans, torture )

Michael
- 519 days ago - naturalnews.com
It appears that the use of electroshock punishment tactics isn't limited to the U.S. military these days: The state of Massachusetts has renewed a special education school's authority to use electric shocks as a form of punishment.
24 comments
Maximum Sentence for Stepfather in Death of Girl
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, torture, death, crime, child neglect, cruelty )

Nancy
- 599 days ago - nytimes.com
Nixzmary's stepdad gets 26 1/3 - 29 years in prison. Years of torture & suffering ended for the 7 yr. old the night he beat her "with particular severity," admitted holding her head under "running water and left her naked and moaning on the floor."
4 comments
Subtleties in the Language Made It Murder, or Not
Society & Culture  (tags: crime and punishment, child abuse, torture, child murder )

Nancy
- 613 days ago - select.nytimes.com
Why not murder for 7 year old Nixzmary's killer? The answer is in six of eight cases since 2003, a parent or guardian charged with murder has accepted a deal, pleading either to a lesser charge or to the original charge in exchange for a lighter sentence.
28 comments
Mother Arrested in Abuse of 7 Year Old Who Was Burned
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, torture, violence )

Nancy
- 613 days ago - bostonherald.com
Finally after three reports! Mother's boyfriend also charged. Allegedly he hit child with belt, urinated on his head, repeatedly burned the boy's genitals with cigarettes. Mother told child the boyfriend "wouldn't do anything to hurt him...don't tell."
11 comments
Stepfather Is Convicted of Manslaughter in Beating Death of 7 Year Old Girl
Society & Culture  (tags: child abuse, neglect, torture, death, violence, crime, inhumane treatment )

Nancy
- 616 days ago - nytimes.com
He beats the child daily, ties her to a chair with duct tape, rope and bungee cords, pummels her with "particular force" shoves her head under a cold bathtub faucet. When she dies he is not called a torturer, nor a killer, just "a child abuser."
44 comments
Project Safe Childhood Video Part 1   video
Society & Culture  (tags: child porn, abuse, torture, government, violence, children, crime, internet, law, police, society, sadness )

Sherry
- 670 days ago - youtube.com
Viewer Discretion Advised. Video uploaded from: http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov/ V iewer Discretion Advised.
12 comments
FRENCH COUPLE FROM PARIS SUBURB DETAINED FOR 'TORTURE' OF ADOPTED DAUGHTER, AGE 4
Society & Culture  (tags: CHILD ABUSE, TORTURE, Barbarity, ALARM )

Alba
- 736 days ago - ttc.org
Doctors who examined child said theyd never come across such a range of abuse. Girl bore injuries including missing teeth, broken bones, depigmentation & lesions to tongue & oesophagus caused by intake of corrosive chemicals, bruises & human bite marks.
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