Nigerian police torture 'routine'
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Nigerian police routinely torture and ill treat suspects, the UN special rapporteur on torture has said.
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Police attempted on Thursday to allay Muslim anxieties after a raid in this city in which nine men were arrested on terrorism charges.Comment
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British Muslims live in a &quot;police state&quot;, one of two men released by police after being held in connection with an investigation into an alleged &quot;Iraq-style&quot; kidnapping and beheading plot, said in an interview with the BBC.
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A detainee being held for interrogation was stripped and confronted with an unmuzzled military police dog. He was suspected of having tried to escape and was later bitten by one of the dogs.
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Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "in bad shape" on Monday after suffering head injuries while in police custody, his lawyer said, and rights groups alleged he and other politicians were tortured.
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Police were out in force in Ibadan, the capital of the southwestern Nigerian state of Oyo, amid fears of violence over the reinstatement of sacked governor Rasheed Ladoja.
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The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - The Ugandan government promised  Tuesday to investigate allegations by an opposition politician  that his driver was kidnapped and tortured to seek information  about anti-government activities.
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A South African on trial in Equatorial Guinea for plotting a coup said on Monday he had been tortured and two defendants said they were forced to sign confessions
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Nigeria's president vows tough action after a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Many Andar residents are anxious about security and resentful of the government and the police, whom they accused of preying on the people.
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Seven suspects were detained during the operation in the northern city of Buraida, the reports said. &quot;A patrol car caught fire after it was hit by a bullet while chasing a suspect&#39;s car&quot;, a security source told the AFP news agency.
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The bodies of 29 people who appeared to have been tortured were found strewn around Baghdad, police said Friday.
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Police in Manchester say they are aware of attempts to organise trouble at the England-Wales World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
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When a Federal Bureau of Investigations officer says interrogations of Iraqi prisoners are too rough, that the techniques amount to âtorture,â youâd think somebody would listen.
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&quot;We go to work with a military escort. We come back here with a military escort. It's like being in an open prison,&quot; said a British worker in this southern Nigerian oil town.