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Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa views Elizabeth Windsor's coffin, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall
THE government has been accused of financially supporting “serious and persistent” human rights abuses by security services in Bahrain in a new report by Human Rights Watch today.
The 61-page report highlights the cases of eight men who say they were tortured at the Bahraini Interior Ministry Criminal Investigation Directorate.
They are all defendants on death row in Bahrain for homicide but claim they were tortured into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Beatrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse have submitted a UN complaint against Labour’s deal with Mauritius, highlighting how exclusion from ancestral lands is denying their right of return and justice for historical abuses, reports ELIZABETH MISTRY