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Pakistan’s Blasphemy Racket: Entrapped, Tortured, Murdered — And Forgotten by the State
16 Feb 2026 06:28 GMT
… (1984), Pakistan enacted the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and … exclusive jurisdiction to investigate custodial torture cases, but investigations are to … no response was subsequently provided.
Human rights lawyer and senior advocate Usman Warraich …
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Egypt: Expansion of summoning human rights defenders and imposing high financial bail to silence independent voices
16 Feb 2026 15:49 GMT
… of Victims of Violence and Torture, for investigation before the SSSP … ,000.
The cases also included human rights lawyer and political activist Mahienour El …
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How Georgian civil society is turning to international law to survive repression
16 Feb 2026 13:20 GMT
… their work.
International human rights law as a survival tool … provides expertise on international human rights law and supports local partners … violence, sexual abuse, and torture. Its work often involves … to children, victims of torture, and staff members.
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Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones – our database has logged them all
16 Feb 2026 14:29 GMT
… the issue or under international human rights law.
Part of the problem of … relate to the use of torture, political imprisonment or enforced disappearances … recognizable sequences of abuse. Widespread torture, political imprisonment, attacks on collective …
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UN experts: Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls
16 Feb 2026 14:13 GMT
… reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, … enforced prostitution, trafficking, persecution, torture, or murder are committed as … under investigation. Under international human rights law, States are obligated to …
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RSF capture of El Fasher amounts to war crimes according to UN report
16 Feb 2026 08:49 GMT
… of sexual violence, including rape; torture and other cruel treatment; acts … Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) for identifying war crimes …
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Britain’s Two-Tier Justice Problem
16 Feb 2026 06:00 GMT
… the prosecutor knew Hermer, a human-rights lawyer whose activist friends describe as … as “radicalised racially motivated sexual torture”—and this has happened at …
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Britain’s Past in Palestine Still Echoes
15 Feb 2026 09:38 GMT
… and 1948. Drafted by leading human rights lawyers Ben Emmerson KC, Danny Friedman … subjected to widespread arbitrary detention, torture, collective punishment, and executions. According …
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‘Speaking truth is her crime’: Netizens rip into European allies of Israel for targeting Albanese
14 Feb 2026 17:06 GMT
… motives behind the occupation, the torture of Palestinian captives, and ongoing … (@wallacemick) February 13, 2026
Similarly, human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber took to X …
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Trump Has Spent $40 Million in Secretive Deals Deporting Hundreds of People to Third Countries
14 Feb 2026 00:16 GMT
… " on upholding international human rights laws, the report states, the … with the Convention Against Torture, after sending a migrant … they would likely be tortured."
The senators also … they could face persecution or torture.
"One migrant …