Russian recruits tell of beatings, torture and sex assaults
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Russia&#39;s once mighty armed forces are riddled with Clockwork Orange-style sadism where senior soldiers subject their junior colleagues to vicious beatings, torture, sexual violence and death threats, a report claimed yesterday.
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Two recent decisions about salaries in the Russian Defense Ministry have infuriated both uniformed and civilian workers there.
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MOSCOW -- Human Rights Watch urged Russian authorities yesterday to take action against the vicious hazing that plagues the nation's military, saying the abuse that kills dozens of conscripts every year and traumatizes thousands more can be prevented.
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Russia's army launches a media campaign to recruit 'contract soldiers' and bolster a force of demoralised conscripts.
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Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.
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The Russian military is reported to be probing claims that conscripts were made to work as male prostitutes.
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Electric shocks, cigarette burnings, beatings and other tortures are routinely carried out by Indonesian security forces against detainees suspected of supporting armed Aceh separatists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.
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Russian officials frequently beat, rape and torture detainees, a report by Amnesty International says.
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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Detainees from Abu Ghraib prison testified that guards ruthless beat them and forced them into sexually humiliating positions.
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Russia was braced for a bloodbath last night after terrorists with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide bomb belts stormed a school and took up to 400 hostages, at least 130 of them children.
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The outcry over the police beating of  a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights has caused an unexpected burst of civic activism across Russia.
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Russian police claimed yesterday that one of the country&#39;s most brutal and enigmatic contract killings - the drive-by shooting of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov in July - had
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A Russian military court sentenced a soldier to four years in prison Tuesday for severely injuring a colleague in a case spotlighting persistent brutality in the Russian military.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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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 US military base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison told The New