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May 14 (UPI) — Former UFC fighter and Army veteran Tim Kennedy attempted to prove that waterboarding isn’t torture by turning a hose on himself.

The family of student Otto Warmbier, who was held prisoner by North Korea for a year and a half before he was returned to his family in a vegetative state and died soon afterward, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the North Korean government on Thursday.

A new report from a human rights group called Safeguard Defenders exposes China’s practice of extracting forced confessions from imprisoned activists, many of them foreign nationals.

PARIS (AP) — A French lawyer has filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, accusing him of complicity in torture in Yemen, an embarrassment for the French government as it rolled out the red carpet for its powerful guest.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) stated the Trump administration “is engaged in an out-and-out cover-up” to keep people from knowing about newly-nominated CIA Director Gina Haspel’s professional background. Wyden said, “I think, with respect

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian historian wildly claimed that the Jews perpetrated a “counter Holocaust” in which Germans were captured, put in camps, tortured and killed.

The sister of the California mother whose 13 children had been found shackled and starved in their home claims the family refused to let her meet her nieces and nephews.

The totalitarian communist regime in Cuba continues to carry out human rights abuses and atrocities against the opposition, including “electroshock torture” on political prisoners for daring to speak out against the regime, revealed Luís Zúñiga, an anti-Castro dissident who spent 19 years behind bars.

Christian North Koreans who have escaped the brutal regime tell of outrageous human rights abuses against anyone suspected of professing the faith, including routine beatings and rapes and specialized torture for those involved in underground prayer.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty to desertion charges this month, complained that the Taliban treated him better than the U.S.

Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made news in May by running into the island nation’s communist May Day parade waving an American flag, remains trapped in Havana’s notorious mental institution. Family say doctors have not diagnosed Llorente with any illness or charged him with any crime.

Political prisoners in Venezuela have testified to torturous methods used against them by the country’s authorities, which include the use of electroshock and nude torture.

A female Ayurveda doctor was allegedly abducted and tortured for 22 days at a Hindu reeducation center last month after marrying a Christian man in Kerala, India.

Fred and Cindy Warmbier, the parents of American student Otto Warmbier, gave an interview to Fox and Friends on Tuesday in which they called the North Korean government “terrorists” for abducting, torturing, and ultimately murdering their son.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert raised the number of Americans injured by unknown acoustic “incidents” while working for the department in Cuba to 21 on Tuesday, warning that doctors may continue to diagnose more.

In a landmark case, a Jerusalem court this week ruled that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must pay damages to 51 Palestinians who were imprisoned and systematically subjected to “unimaginable torture” by the PA from 1990-2003.

Chechnya’s president responded reports alleging that gay men are being tortured in the country by saying that there is no torture taking place because there are no gay men in Chechnya.

TEL AVIV – The United Church of Christ (UCC) overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week claiming Israel mistreats Palestinian children and called on the U.S. to suspend military assistance to the Jewish state.

The head of the United Nation’s Human Rights operation accused President Trump of a “flirtation” with a return to torture and said the American public is more “accepting” of the practice.

LONDON (AP) — A woman has been arrested in London for committing suspected war crimes during civil war in Liberia.

The chief of India’s army has been accused of endorsing the use of human shields after he defended one of his subordinates who tied a civilian to a vehicle to allegedly deter violent protests in the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.

An asylum seeker in Germany brutally tortured a fellow migrant by cutting off his eyelids and blinding him by shoving a pen into his eyes over a 50 euro debt.

A woman from India was sold to her immigration sponsor for an estimated $4,700 after she entered Saudi Arabia on a housemaid visa and is being tortured by her captor, her daughter tells the Times of India (TOI).

Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper has asked the Kremlin for protection after Chechen clerics threatened “retribution” for a report on the torture and murder of gay men.

Hundreds of migrants from West Africa are being bought and auctioned off at “slave markets” in Libya opened to the public, a United Nations agency has learned from survivors.

In his preface to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States is committed to guaranteeing human rights around the globe.

A senior Fatah official received a court summons and compensation lawsuit for $250 million upon landing at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York over his involvement in the killing of an American-Palestinian citizen in 1995.

The mother of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student tortured, mutilated and slain in Egypt last year, has appealed to Pope Francis to press the matter during his upcoming visit to Cairo.

A Muslim faith healer has been arrested for the brutal drugging and stabbing of 20 of his disciples at a Sufi shrine in Punjab, Pakistan.

In an emotional, exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka, who is now serving as the Deputy Assistant to President Trump, tells the true story about the medal his father received for fighting tyranny.

Four Chicago suspects pleaded not guilty on Friday to several charges related to a kidnapping and racially-charged torture of a young schizophrenic man broadcast on Facebook Live.

The UK Daily Mail relates a tale of Islamic State depravity from Russian news sources, in which a 10-year-old Iraqi girl living in occupied Mosul was tortured to death in front of her mother for the crime of going outside without an escort.

Donations for the mentally disabled victim who was tied up, beaten, and tortured during a Facebook Live broadcast in Chicago reached over $80,000 on the fundraising website GoFundMe.

The White House reacted to the Facebook live video of four African-American teenagers beating and torturing a white disabled man, denouncing the apparent crime.

The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule.

Human rights watchdog group Amnesty International has accused fighters dressed in Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) uniforms of committing war crimes by torturing and extrajudicially executing civilians they arrested in villages south of Mosul.