Nigerian police routinely torture detainees: U.N
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Nigerian police routinely torture suspects, shooting them in the legs, beating them and hanging them from the ceiling for long periods, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture said on Friday.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Russian police of beating and torturing suspects and criticized authorities for what it said were insufficient investigations into such allegations.
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A United Nations anti-torture body has criticised Britain for the &quot;unsatisfactory&quot; conditions in its prisons, including a &quot;substantial number of deaths in custody&quot;, urging it to act at once to improve them.
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The destruction of CIA interrogation tapes supports suspicions that the agency used torture to gather information from terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, a U.N. human rights expert who recently visited the prison said Thursday.
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At least 25 Palestinian U.N. workers have been detained by Israel for about two years under charges the Jewish state won't reveal, two spokesmen for the United Nations charged Wednesday.
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A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, quoted Tuesday by the New York Times, accuses the US military of using interrogation tactics that amount to torture against prisoners
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The top U.N. human rights official on Friday denounced the use of secret detention centers in the war on terrorism, and said governments must treat prisoners according to the law, avoiding torture and providing fair trials.
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THE United Nations said today it was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, abducted at gunpoint in Kabul a week ago by militants who have threatened to kill them.
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Moroccan U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are alleged to have sexually abused girls as young as 13 over a three-year period as units rotated through the West African country, U.N. officials said.
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Indonesian soldiers are routinely torturing suspected Acehnese rebels, Human Rights Watch says.
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The United Nations Committee Against Torture has urged Britain to carry out a review of its policy of detaining foreign suspects indefinitely under anti-terrorism laws.
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Authorities are investigating whether a suspect in the kidnapping of three U.N. workers was tortured before he died in police custody, an official said Sunday.
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Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published Tuesday.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's website reported.
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Uncooperative Guantanamo Bay detainees were regularly subjected to highly abusive treatment over a long period of time, unidentified guards at the U.S. military base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison told The New York Times.
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Zimbabwean police are still beating and torturing human rights activists and opponents of the government despite mediation efforts launched by fellow African nations, Amnesty International said Friday.
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A confidential report states that the U.S. military has used psychological and sometimes physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on prisoners.