One stated purpose of the law was to "remove uncertainty around the ill-treatment of wild animals by targeting acts of wilful or reckless ill-treatment."
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Certainly more reports of ill treatment of women won't help.
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"The tour dispelled rumors of ill treatment," the article reads.
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"The lower court's ill-treatment of Heller cannot stand," Alito said.
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Torture and ill-treatment reportedly remain widespread and systematic in detention facilities.
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The three defendants argue that methadone prohibition amounts to torture and ill treatment.
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It could be argued that authorizing sex work encourages ill treatment toward women.
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Detainees are often subjected to ill-treatment, in some documented cases amounting to torture.
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Some died in custody because of ill-treatment and lack of medical care, HRW said.
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But he rejected the extradition requests saying the men risked ill-treatment on their return.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have reported the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners.
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More recently it has been directed at their ill treatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas.
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But at the same time, such ill treatment of these bodies invited revenge from their families.
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Amnesty said such examinations violate the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment under international law.
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But as King tells it, the ill treatment and abuse of women remains common in future China.
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The Ministry of Justice established a specific unit to deal with claims of torture and ill-treatment.
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Detainees are often subjected to ill-treatment, in some documented cases amounting to torture, the report said.
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The United Nations has said detainees are often subjected to ill treatment, and in some cases torture.
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" Amnesty said it had documented "widespread use of torture and other ill-treatment in Yemeni and Emirati facilities.
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But he rejected the extradition request, saying they faced a real risk of ill-treatment on their return.
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Activists have highlighted cases of human rights abuse that include ill treatment and poor pay of local workers.
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Years later Mr. Cavett said he regretted that he'd subjected his good friend Hef to our ill treatment.
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Washington has called the relationship "ironclad," despite Duterte's complaints that include allegations of U.S. hypocrisy and ill treatment.
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As for the C.I.A. officers, the Justice Department had carried out an inquiry into ill treatment of detainees.
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Campaigners broadly welcomed the new law, which criminalizes "harassment, aggression, sexual exploitation or ill treatment of women" in Morocco.
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The monitor will also only assess accusations of ill treatment made to Judge Gee in a June 2017 motion.
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But many advances in the status of Aboriginal Australians have been prompted by revealing atrocious conditions and ill-treatment.
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Many donkeys are purchased or adopted by people who ultimately can't properly care for them, resulting in ill treatment.
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The United Nations has said detainees are often subjected to ill treatment, including some documented cases that amount to torture.
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The report said torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remained common, as were blinding, amputation and floggings as punishment.
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Turkey is a party to the UN and Council of Europe conventions on the prevention of torture and ill-treatment.
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Since last April, Zeid's staff has found at least 595 cases of ill-treatment or torture by state security forces.
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Peter Mulryan was among many who experienced ill treatment and neglect by foster families who used them as farm laborers.
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The report also cited ongoing violations committed in the West Bank, including the systematic detention and ill-treatment of Palestinian children.
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For all the buzz that the bike-sharing concept gets, the ill-treatment of these bikes gets just as much attention.
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The United Nations human rights office this month denounced the crackdown, citing concern over the coercion and ill-treatment of lawyers.
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Therefore, The Economist is cherry-picking to distort Turkey's international co-operation efforts on the issues of torture and ill treatment.
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New South Wales government and police force said sorry for their ill treatment of people attending Australia's first Mardis Gras parade.
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Instead, they have been allowed to endure ill treatment at the hands of majority populations in several countries, without any support.
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After visiting many of Brazil's prisons and jails, Mr. Méndez collected credible testimonies on torture and ill-treatment by the police.
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Al Qaeda's Egyptian leaders wanted to exact revenge on the United States for the imprisonment and "ill treatment" of their spiritual guide.
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"The lawyers monitoring arrests saw signs of beatings and ill-treatment on several of those released," said Legal Agenda lawyer Ghida Frangieh.
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It refers to "indiscriminate and extrajudicial killing of Rohingya children, and the torture, ill-treatment and gender-based violence" committed against them.
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Defendants or defence lawyers alleged torture or ill-treatment during interrogation in 260 hearings, the report said, including of women or children.
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"Lithuania had also permitted him to be moved to another CIA detention site in Afghanistan, exposing him to further ill-treatment," it said.
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Shortly after Cortés, Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar, denounced ill-treatment of Amerindians, prompting an anguished debate at the Spanish court.
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"The Act does not protect claimants from every form of ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship," he wrote in the decision, dated Dec. 3.
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Thailand's fishing industry employs more than 300,000 people, many of them migrant workers from neighboring countries who are often subject to ill-treatment.
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" China Human Rights Defenders, a Hong Kong-based NGO, said the "body of evidence of arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment is overwhelming.
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He has alleged at court hearings that he is being subjected to ill treatment in custody and that his complaints are systematically ignored.
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Abroad, news of the ill treatment suffered by figures like Mr. Arrufat, Mr. Padilla and later Reinaldo Arenas darkened the image of Cuba.
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The experts had received "consistent and numerous reports indicating the lack of prompt, impartial and effective investigation into allegations of torture or ill-treatment".
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London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International said that Mukhtarli "should be immediately and unconditionally released and protected from torture and other ill-treatment".
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There have been many news stories covering the abuse and ill-treatment of migrant workers drafted in to build infrastructure for Qatar's World Cup.
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" He also noted that defectors who flee to China are routinely returned by Beijing to suffer a "continuing pattern of ill-treatment and torture.
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And such ill treatment not only has a toxic impact on the female recipient, but has reverberating dysfunctional effects for employment settings as well.
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The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and ill treatment, Nils Melzer, said in an interview that Mr. Assange was "extremely jumpy and stressed."
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"Torture and ill-treatment are systematic in detention facilities across Libya, particularly in the initial period of detention and during interrogations," the U.N. said.
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For those who are mentally ill, treatment "is limited to jail staff" occasionally asking "whether they are feeling homicidal or suicidal," Judge Hurd wrote.
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Washington has described the relationship between the two countries as "iron-clad," despite Duterte's complaints that include allegations of U.S. hypocrisy and ill-treatment.
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Groups like Amnesty International warned it would open suspects to the possibility of torture, ill treatment, and unfair trials in China (and other countries).
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Katrine Steinfeld, a Norwegian-Hungarian who works for gender equality in Brussels, said she fears that Trump's election will legitimize the ill treatment of women.
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"These practices lack both scientific value and violate international standards on the ban of torture and ill-treatment," he said in an email from Copenhagen.
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According to Human Rights Watch, ill-treatment and torture of detainees are widespread, as are violence and discrimination against women and the country's LGBT community.
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"Independent monitoring of the situation in places where individuals are deprived of their liberty is a crucial safeguard against ill-treatment and torture," he said.
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"The authorities used torture and other ill-treatment and enforced disappearance against hundreds of people, and dozens were extrajudicially executed with impunity," the report reads.
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Many inmates complain of overcrowding and ill treatment, but say that what they want most is rehabilitation and help finding jobs when they get out.
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Amnesty International warned Monday that the two detained activists were at risk of torture "and other ill-treatment" as long as they remained in custody.
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The project comes at a time when the border has captured the nation's attention due to reports of ill-treatment of migrants at U.S. border stations.
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The Creature, in his turn, informs Mary that society's ill treatment of her only proves what he has long believed: that humans are wicked and merciless.
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"These shocking figures are a clear indicator of the widespread and growing use of torture and ill treatment by government security forces," Mr. al-Hussein said.
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The report documented 74 cases of alleged torture or "ill treatment" by the Thai military or police, including beating, burning, strangling, suffocation, waterboarding and electric shock.
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The UN agencies could not independently verify those allegations, but said they had been receiving "credible reports" of torture and ill-treatment by authorities for years.
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The report also said she had found evidence of "torture and related ill treatment by Afghan government forces," particularly by its intelligence agency and the police.
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Ill-treatment and torture have been reported in detention, including beatings, use of electric shocks, hanging detainees by their wrists and "suffocation with gas", she said.
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The annual report from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also included allegations of ill treatment, surveillance, criminalization and public stigmatization campaigns targeting victims and human rights defenders.
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"Even more refugees will be locked up in North Africa under high risk of torture, rape and other forms of ill treatment," said German MEP Cornelia Ernst.
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Every refugee has a story to tell about ill-treatment at the hands of locals, but there have been no widespread protests or reports of systematic persecution.
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"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia takes any and all allegations of ill treatment of defendants awaiting trial or prisoners serving their sentences very seriously," the spokesman said.
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"His torture and ill-treatment are reported to continue," a statement from the U.N. human rights office said, without giving details of the source of Melzer's information.
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"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia takes any and all allegations of ill treatment of defendants awaiting trial or prisoners serving their sentences very seriously," the spokesman said.
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The case would look into "suspicion of ill-treatment committed during an official procedure" by an "unknown perpetrator", it said, giving no identification of any officers involved.
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They gathered video, pictures and evidence that showed that workers at the factories were exploited, with long working hours and ill treatment by management, China Labor Watch said.
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"The substance of these responses is a good indication of how they take seriously the evidence of mistreatment or ill-treatment by companies," Forst said in an interview.
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That force has been accused of sectarian violence, and torture and ill-treatment of prisoners remains rife in the Ministry, according to a 2015 report from Amnesty International.
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"Grave human rights violations, such as arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, ill-treatment and torture, and at least one extra-judicial execution were documented," the report said.
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But the question the justices faced wasn't whether Mr Wittig was a good boss, or even whether Mr Heffernan might have some statutory remedy for his ill treatment.
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This is what the insult argues for — a rough-and-tumble world in which raw power reigns and nobody ever asks for help or complains of ill treatment.
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London-based rights group Amnesty International had also called for the immediate release of Musa and Hamidi and said they were at risk of torture and ill treatment.
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By the end of the year, 467 workers, including truck drivers, factory workers and teachers, had been questioned by authorities or subjected to torture and other ill-treatment.
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On Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Whelan's allegations of ill-treatment had not checked out and that diplomats were being granted regular access to him in custody.
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"From allegations of torture and other ill-treatment to an opaque pardons process, it's clear the death penalty is a stain on Malaysia's criminal justice system," she said.
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During this call the spokesperson also confirmed that the farm where women accused supervisors of rape and ill-treatment is a "business partner" and supplies the company with strawberries.
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There is also a "continuing pattern of ill-treatment and torture" of defectors who escaped to China only to be returned to North Korea by Chinese authorities, Quintana said.
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A South Carolina man is facing an ill treatment of animals charge after he allegedly set a pit bull puppy on fire in a church parking lot, police say.
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In these detention centers, journalists, activists and civilians deemed in violation of ISIS decrees were subjected to unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture and ill treatment, according to the commission.
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The number of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons, where according to UNICEF ill-treatment of children is widespread, systematic, and institutionalized from the moment of arrest, has spiked dramatically.
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Russia must "combat impunity concerning torture and ill-treatment cases, including by ensuring that high-level government officials publicly and unambiguously affirm that torture will not be tolerated", it said.
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Migrants picked up by the Libyan guard are being brought to detention centers where they face ill-treatment and abuse, the U.N. refugee agency said in a report in September.
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"The right to life, liberty, and security, and in particular the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment protected by the constitution and international conventions have been violated," the declaration read.
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There was much hue and cry among climate hawks in 2015 when Pope Francis issued his "Laudato Si," an impassioned, 184-page statement decrying humankind's ill treatment of the Earth.
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" He advised any journalist who had suffered ill treatment from an agent to file a formal complaint, saying that "there's a little thing in the country called freedom of speech.
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"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia takes any and all allegations of ill treatment of defendants awaiting trial of prisoners serving their sentences very seriously," an embassy spokesman told the Times.
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"Azerbaijan's authorities must release Mr. Mukhtarli without delay and ensure that he fully enjoys his human rights, including the protection from torture and ill treatment," Nils Muižnieks said in a statement.
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Nine months ago, following a fact-finding mission, the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture gave Mr Erdogan's government a detailed report on ill-treatment in Turkish prisons.
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The Associated Press reports the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Thursday that the force-feeding of detainees could be deemed as "ill-treatment" that violates the agreement.
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Zeid urged the government "to ensure that the law grants access to independent legal counsel and family members, as well as addressing the ill-treatment in detention and deaths in custody".
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The High Court later ordered the government to reconsider its decision because of concern Kim might not be protected from ill-treatment and given the right to silence before a trial.
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"Human rights violations documented ... include the excessive or unnecessary use of force that led to unlawful killings and injuries, arbitrary detentions, and torture and ill-treatment including sexual violence," she said.
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A series of sexual misconduct cases has prompted the Southern Baptist Convention&aposs socially conservative, all-male leadership to seek forgiveness for the ill treatment of women and vow to combat it.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Bahrain's foreign ministry rejected on Wednesday the findings of an Amnesty International report published this week, which said torture and other forms of ill-treatment persist in the Gulf kingdom.
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As for James and Craft, who were both arrested in connection with the case, they have been charged with one count of ill-treatment of an animal/torture, according to court records.
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" As recently as 2014, the United Nations' committee against torture called on the United States to end its practice of using sleep deprivation on detainees, calling it "a form of ill-treatment.
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He is the Ukrainian-born, wildly gifted former Royal Ballet dancer who became a principal at 19, then caused a sensation by walking out in 2012 amid mutual allegations of ill treatment.
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In addition, "the Saudi government under the authority of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been implicated in serious allegations of torture and other ill treatment of Saudi citizens," the petition argued.
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The C.I.A. temporarily shuttered its program, and Congress passed a law limiting the court ruling's impact by specifying categories of ill treatment that would be considered grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
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The United Nations Committee against Torture on Friday called on Bahrain to release Rajab from more than nine months of solitary confinement and investigate widespread allegations of ill-treatment and torture of detainees.
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Women and children are not recognized as requiring special attention and remain vulnerable to abuse and ill-treatment, according to the Global Detention Project, a non-profit human rights organization based in Geneva.
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Many are unaccompanied minors and children under five who have either been separated from their parents or sent ahead by their families in the Mideast and Africa to avoid war and ill treatment.
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The report, based on 104 interviews, describes the use of torture and ill-treatment in custody, including severe beatings, sexual assault, electric shocks and waterboarding by police, gendarmerie, military police and security forces.
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The scholar, Bello Abdullahi, who was arrested and faces charges including cruelty to children, "is a good person and isn't aware of the ill treatment" by his teaching staff, said Burhani's father, Yahaya.
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The three were detained by police in late May after gathering video, pictures and evidence that illustrated long hours and ill treatment by management for workers at the factories, China Labor Watch said.
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" Pompeo also implicitly supported torture by declaring that CIA officers accused of mistreating detainees were "not torturers, they [were] patriots" and that the acts of torture and ill treatment "were within the law.
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I see persecution not just in the obvious regimes, such as North Korea, but in countries such as the United States, where ill treatment may not be codified in law but exists nonetheless.
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Bachelet said there were still credible reports of serious human rights violations in Burundi, including arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, ill-treatment, arrests and detention, and curbs on freedom of association, expression and movement.
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She said there were still credible reports of serious human rights violations in Burundi, including arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, ill-treatment, arrests and detention, and curbs on freedom of association, expression and movement.
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If anything, respectability politics are a form of victim-blaming that hold the marginalized accountable for the ill treatment they receive rather than institutional forms of oppression that devalue some people and exalt others.
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"I am deeply alarmed by reports about the deteriorating medical conditions of the prisoners on hunger strike, and that their torture and ill-treatment have continued since their transfer," Jahangir said in a statement.
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The report, titled "Cycle of Fear", was jointly produced by the Geneva-based World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) - a coalition of NGOs fighting torture and ill-treatment - and the Bangladeshi human rights group Odhikar.
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The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and ill treatment, Nils Melzer, said the examination in early May revealed that Mr. Assange's "capacity to focus and coordinate have been clearly affected" by his imprisonment.
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To this day, detainees continue to be subjected to ill-treatment in the form of force-feeding and medical neglect and continue to face difficulty receiving proper medical treatment or rehabilitation as torture survivors.
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"As in Rakhine, civilians are targeted for killings, rape, arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, forced labour, torture and ill-treatment, and persecution based on ethnic or religious grounds," said mission member Chris Sidoti.
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In addition, the ICC will examine the arrests of thousands of "actual or perceived members of the opposition," including some "allegedly subjected to serious abuse and ill treatment in detention," according to the statement.
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"There are worrying indications that reprisals have continued to take place, notably against the political opposition, including physical attacks and ill-treatment, arbitrary arrests, harassment, disappearances and filing of criminal cases," the United Nations said.
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Implicit bias, subconscious, usually negative beliefs about a group of people, casts Black mothers in an unfair light and leads to ill treatment in several areas — healthcare, social life, housing and work, among other things.
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This, of course, is in many ways the point of the book: to demonstrate the lack of clear information, the false starts, the blinding confusion, the ill treatment of hostages and their families by officials.
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"Denying access to such health services violates [women] and girls' rights to be protected against gender-based discrimination and violence as well as torture and ill-treatment," several United Nations experts said in an April statement.
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The statement carried by state news agency BNA did not address Amnesty's findings of ongoing abuses by security forces, nor its allegations of impunity for unlawful killings, injuries, torture and other ill-treatment since November 2011.
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Ms. Li (also known as Li Maizi), Wang Man, Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan were released on bail after a five-week incarceration that their lawyers said included ill treatment, medical neglect and harassment.
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The army said it was searching for militants, but after at least four Syrian men died in custody, Human Rights Watch said their bodies showed signs of ill treatment and torture and called for an investigation.
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The ACLU said in its filing that those being deported could face persecution or torture because many were Chaldean Catholics or Iraqi Kurds and that both groups were recognized as targets of ill-treatment in Iraq.
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"Police torture is a stain on Nigerian society that must be addressed with clear orders to law enforcement officers not to inflict torture or other ill-treatment on detainees under any circumstances," Amnesty International Nigeria said.
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" Later that year, in the House, Representative McCollum put forward a bill demanding that the secretary of state certify that "United States funds do not support military detention, interrogation, abuse or ill-treatment of Palestinian children.
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" Patrick Poon, who researches Chinese issues for Amnesty International from Hong Kong, said in an interview that "without access to a lawyer of his own choice, Jiang Tianyong is at risk of torture or other ill treatment.
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Colonel Duzenli said in his testimony that he had not been allowed to read the statements he signed while in custody, and he complained of ill treatment amounting to torture in the first days after the coup.
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When it comes to violence inside the prison system, official documents of the Mexican government show that, in 2013 alone, nearly 12,000 reports of torture and other ill-treatment were filed to local and national agencies, Amnesty says.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British court has rejected an extradition request from Turkey for exiled businessman Akin Ipek to face terrorism-funding, fraud and other charges, saying he faced a real risk of ill-treatment should he be returned.
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Amnesty International said last week that more than 1,000 Iranians had been arrested and detained in jails "notorious for torture and other ill-treatment over the past seven days", with many being denied access to families and lawyers.
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Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement that the reports of ill treatment of arrested protesters had cast "a dark shadow on the situation for people arrested since these protests began."
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He recommended that Brazilian authorities urgently provide custody hearings for all detainees within 48 hours of arrest and redesign those hearings to encourage victims to speak up and to allow for effective documentation of torture or ill-treatment.
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Thumbing its nose at Mr Phillips and the Supreme Court's recent ruling, Colorado "has renewed its war" against Mr Phillips and has sided with people who have "targeted" him for ill treatment by requesting cakes that violate his conscience.
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"While acknowledging the authorities' recent efforts to address police violence, we remain very concerned about highly disturbing reports of serious incidents of ill-treatment and violence against people crossing the border into Hungary, including by State agents," Grandi said.
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The committee urged the Egyptian authorities immediately to end the practice of torture and ill-treatment in all places of detention, to institute a zero-tolerance approach to torture and to prosecute the perpetrators, including those with command responsibility.
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Under that statute, which was formalized in law in 2013, a person can be held for up to six months in an undisclosed location, "leaving the detainee at grave risk of torture and other ill treatment," Amnesty International said.
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Melzer said the ban on torture and ill-treatment was one of the most fundamental norms of international law and could not be justified in any circumstances, and called for prosecution of U.S. officials who had carried out torture.
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The three U.N. experts, Yanghee Lee, Agnes Callamard and Nils Melzer, said they had grave concerns about the army's use of incommunicado detention in the recent conflict, as well as allegations of torture, ill-treatment and deaths in custody.
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Every time I ordered an Uber after reading the 10th Guardian article about a misuse of conduct, an ill treatment of drivers or a tax avoidance scandal, I would have so much guilt for choosing cheap flexibility over principle.
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Amnesty International said on Thursday that more than a thousand Iranians had been arrested and detained in jails "notorious for torture and other ill-treatment over the past seven days", with many being denied access to families and lawyers.
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"The litany of abuses in his case, ranging from enforced disappearance, prolonged pre-trial detention, collective punishment of his wife, ill-treatment, and denied due process rights reinforces that there is still no rule of law in China," Eve said.
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For example, he was an early campaigner against the ill-treatment of Dalits, yet for much of his life kept faith in Hinduism's caste divisions and failed to support inter-caste marriages (initially he was also against Hindu-Muslim unions).
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Flora Alatan, Delta State Commissioner for Women Affairs, told CNN her department is working with the justice ministry to adopt the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP), a federal legislation with a provision that directly punishes the ill-treatment of widows.
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A former justice minister twice ordered South Korean-born Kim extradited to China, but Kim's lawyer asked the courts to review those decisions for fear he might not receive a fair trial or face ill-treatment in the Chinese justice system.
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Amnesty said a field investigation had documented "an alarming pattern of the Hong Kong Police Force deploying reckless and indiscriminate tactics, including while arresting people at protests, as well as exclusive evidence of torture and other ill-treatment in detention".
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Op-Ed Contributor HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel's illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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The new report accuses the security forces of "torture and ill-treatment" of suspected insurgents in northern Myanmar, and says sexual and gender-based violence by the Myanmar military "remains a prominent feature of conflicts in Shan and Kachin states".
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During its Oct 30-Nov 22 mission, the U.N. team documented 113 specific cases of torture and ill-treatment - mainly through "severe beatings" - and 24 cases of sexual violence against women, men and adolescents by members of the police and army.
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Caine Young, a longtime activist at LGBT advocacy group Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), told BuzzFeed News in March that members of the LGBT community living in Botswana suffer from a range of ill treatment from other members of society.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Human rights experts from the United Nations called on Spain on Friday to halt extraditions of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals to China because of concerns they would be exposed to the risk of torture, ill treatment or the death penalty.
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The network, in a show of support, and probably anticipating a repeat of that now infamous moment at the Golden Globes, when Debra Messing called out their ill-treatment of Catt Sadler, reportedly implemented a 30-second delay on its red carpet coverage.
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When he does face contempt — from Louisa's self-centered fitness nut of a boyfriend, a threadbare character in the hands of Harry Potter heartthrob Matthew Lewis — it doesn't approximate the world's ill treatment of disabled characters, which really isn't on display at all.
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"The Committee (against Torture) is seriously concerned at consistent allegations of widespread torture and ill-treatment, including severe beatings, of persons deprived of their liberty, especially at the moment of apprehension and during pretrial detention, mainly in order to extract confessions," it said.
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Given the importance of the timing for an effective use of postcoital contraceptive methods, restrictions to the free distribution of ECPs may violate a number of rights, including the rights to health, non-discrimination, gender equality, and to be free from ill-treatment.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A guilty verdict for a British activist in Thailand charged with defamation for alleging ill-treatment of migrant workers at a big fruit company sets an alarming precedent in the fight against labor exploitation, rights groups said on Tuesday.
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Awdah has "gone through a terrible ordeal, including prolonged pre-trial detention, months of solitary confinement, incommunicado detention and other ill-treatment - all flagrant violations to his right to a fair trial", Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Middle East Research Director, said in a statement.
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"The Bangladeshi authorities have a poor track record when it comes to human rights in custody, with violations including torture and other ill-treatment, often to obtain 'confessions' and the denial of medical treatment," Champa Patel, Amnesty International's South Asia Director said.
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"The Bangladeshi authorities have a poor track record when it comes to human rights in custody, with violations including torture and other ill-treatment often to obtain 'confessions' and the denial of medical treatment," said Champa Patel, South Asia director of Amnesty International.
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A prosecutor with the International Criminal Court announced several weeks ago that there was a "reasonable basis" to open investigations into war crimes of torture and related ill-treatment in detention facilities run by the United States military and the C.I.A. in Afghanistan.
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The panel, which received information from activists and U.N. agencies, voiced concern at allegations of "widespread and routine commission of torture and ill-treatment in (Bangladesh) by law enforcement officials for the purpose of obtaining confessions or to solicit the payment of bribes".
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday accused a former U.S. Marine it has held for almost a year on spying charges of faking health problems in custody and lying about his ill-treatment, comments the U.S. embassy rejected as factually inaccurate "pulp fiction".
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Last week, after meeting with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, the President said he took at face value the North Korean dictator's word that he did not know about Warmbier's ill treatment in prison, earning a rebuke from the dead man's parents.
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The ACLU sued on June 15 to halt the deportations, arguing the Iraqis could face persecution, torture, or death because many were Chaldean Catholics, Sunni Muslims, or Iraqi Kurds and that the groups were recognized as targets of ill-treatment in Iraq.
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"Not only are these Baha'is unjustly imprisoned because of their beliefs, they are now also subjected to added pressures and ill treatment without any justification but also in contradiction with Iran's own laws," said Diane Ala'i, the group's representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
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Reuters reported their sources also said Qahtani was one mastermind of bin Salman's plot to lock up hundreds of potential political opponents in a sweeping purge in 2017, as well as "oversaw the interrogation and ill-treatment" of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.
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Germany called for the measure to end as quickly as possible, while an international lawyers' group warned Turkey against using it to subvert the rule of law and human rights, pointing to allegations of torture and ill-treatment of people held in the mass roundup.
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I'm sure Pak isn't intending to make a critique of the regime's abuses — but even a straight Kim Jong Il–style propaganda movie, in which a disabled hero devotes himself to the nation and no ill-treatment is revealed, would be a subversive act.
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The Arab youths, mostly petty traders, were protesting against worsening insecurity and alleged ill treatment by security forces in northern Mali, which has been plagued by Islamist violence, Tuareg separatists and ethnic tensions ever since armed groups took over parts of the region in 2012.
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MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) - Human rights experts from the United Nations called on Spain on Friday to halt extraditions of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals to China because of concerns they would be exposed to the risk of torture, ill treatment or the death penalty.
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"Only a few weeks after the ruthless killing of Jamal Khashoggi, these shocking reports of torture, sexual harassment and other forms of ill-treatment, if verified, expose further outrageous human rights violations by the Saudi authorities," said Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East research director.
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And the very presence of screeners could create fear of ill treatment and thereby dampen who chooses to come out and spend their Saturday night in Westport, just as barriers to voting deter even those who have the required ID or proof of citizenship.
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"I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws," he said.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - On the day Jacob Zuma finally caved to pressure to quit as South African president, he ranted to the state broadcaster for an hour about the ill treatment he had received at the hands of the party he had served since his teenage years.
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"China's record of torture, disappearance, and arbitrary detention of Uighurs, as well as the politicized nature of judicial proceedings in past cases of forced repatriation, raise serious concerns that if deported, these individuals will be at risk of torture and ill-treatment," Human Rights Watch's Wang said.
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Activists, for one, braved the brutal manifestations of the repressive Sudanese state, which included arbitrary and unlawful detentions, ill-treatment in detention, restrictions on freedom of expression (like expansive censorship), the use of lethal force against protestors, and sexual and gender-based violence, such as rape.
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According to Amnesty, hundreds of protesters suffered ill-treatment during the Hamas clampdown, including one of its own research consultants, Hind Khoudary, who was detained and interrogated for three hours, Amnesty said, during which she was accused of being a spy and working as a foreign agent.
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"I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials — practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws," he added.
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"We are gravely concerned that anyone extradited to China will be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and other grave human rights violations," Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor wrote in an open letter to Carrie Lam, the city's leader, on Sunday.
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But coercing registered refugees into returning home against their will violates the international legal prohibition against refoulement -- not to forcibly return or pressure anyone into returning to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, torture or other ill-treatment, or a threat to life.
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"Only a few weeks after the ruthless killing of Jamal Khashoggi, these shocking reports of torture, sexual harassment and other forms of ill-treatment, if verified, expose further outrageous human rights violations by the Saudi authorities," Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East research director, said in the statement.
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"Diplomatic assurances are unreliable and ineffective in protecting against torture and ill-treatment, and States should not resort to them," said Juan Méndez, UN special rapporteur on torture, and Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, in a statement they jointly issued in December 25.
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"We are alarmed at the arrest and alleged ill-treatment of Mr El Behairy which appears to be related solely to the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity," a panel of six rights rapporteurs said in a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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" The organization said the vote on Kavanaugh should be "further postponed unless and until any information relevant to Kavanaugh's possible involvement in human rights violations—including in relation to the U.S. government's use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, such as during the CIA detention program—is declassified and made public.
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The panel's four members pinned responsibility for the crisis on the program's executive director, Michel Sidibé, saying that under his autocratic leadership the agency had become a cult of personality marked by "favoritism, preferment and ethical blindness" that failed to prevent harassment and abuse or respond swiftly to accusations of ill treatment.
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Her early films include "Sand Screens" (1991), a drama centering on a woman determined to lead an uninhibited life in a deeply conservative society, and the sarcastically titled "A Civilized People" (1999), which touches on such discomfiting topics as homosexuality, the ill treatment of immigrant house servants and religious acrimony in Lebanese society.
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In the context of this entire exhibition that offers work dealing with voluntary immigration, the carceral state, the systematic ill treatment of indigenous people, and police brutality, Faustine's work is too easily drawn into the role of illustrating the simplistic conception of whiteness being commensurate with the hatred and fear of people of color.
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United Nations investigators had documented at least 345 cases of torture and ill treatment since the start of the year and met detainees with fresh wounds, including some who had been beaten or burned so severely they could not walk unaided, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the agency's high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement.
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Screenshot: U.S SenateGoogle's ill-treatment of its contract workforce is well documented, came to a head earlier this year when over 900 employees signed a letter calling for the company to respect the contracts, the humanity, and the work of its temporary workforce—"temps, vendors, and contractors," or TVCs, who are employed by outside staffing firms.
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"It is especially deplorable that Palestinian children are suffering the brunt of occupation policies and practices of Israel, whether as a result of the blockade and hostilities in Gaza, the excessive use of force by Israeli security forces in the context of legitimate protests and peaceful demonstrations, as well as search operations in the refugee camps, and abuse and ill-treatment in Israeli prisons," he wrote.
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Further potential violations of international law highlighted in the report include the implementation of severe naval and air restrictions such as the closure of Sanaa airport -- which violates international humanitarian law covering protection for the sick and wounded -- ill-treatment and torture in detention facilities across the country and restrictions to freedom of expression in the form of the relentless harassment of journalists by the government of Yemen and coalition forces.
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