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Alice Edwards The UN special rapporteur on torture

On April 15, a federal court in Virginia will hear the case of Al Shimari et al. v. CACI, a lawsuit brought by the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims.

The United Nations called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Bahrain’s leading pro-democracy activist Naji Fateel and launch of torture investigations about him.

Two prominent Palestinian rights groups highlighted Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, saying the Tel Aviv regime enjoys a culture of impunity in the absence of international accountability and systematically subjects the detainees to various forms of torture.

Mental health and legal experts said that practices employed by corrections officers every day in county jails can put prisoners and staff at risk of injury and can harm vulnerable people who may be scheduled to return to society within months.

By not repatriating women and children held in camps in SyriaFrance violates the Convention against Torture because the country has the “obligation” to protect them, according to a decision of the Committee against Torture.