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Israeli NGO denounces systematic torture against Palestinian inmates

Published on: August 6, 2024
09:23

Tel Aviv, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The Israeli NGO B'Tselem denounced the torture to which Palestinian prisoners are subjected in jails in Israel, amid growing global criticism of the actions of the national penitentiary service.

Israel has perpetrated over 500 attacks on Palestinian journalists

Published on: July 16, 2024
13:26

Ramallah, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian Journalists Union stated on Tuesday that Israeli security forces and settlers have perpetrated more than 500 attacks on journalists in the occupied territories during the first six months of this year.

Israel tortures and executes Palestinian detainees of the Gaza Strip

Published on: June 20, 2024
08:36

Ramallah, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority denounced the torture of Palestinian citizens arrested in the Gaza Strip and condemned the extrajudicial executions carried out by Israel.

Deposed former Gabonese president declares hunger strike

Published on: May 15, 2024
10:23

Libreville, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The deposed former Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, announced the start of a hunger strike in protest against the alleged acts of torture and kidnapping against him and his family, by the military authorities that govern his country.

Israel doubled the number of Palestinian prisoners in six months

Published on: March 31, 2024
09:55

Ramallah, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) More than nine thousand Palestinians are today in prison in Israel, a figure that represents double the number reported before the beginning of the new cycle of violence in the area, last October 7.

Human remains found near former torture center in Chile

Published on: October 7, 2023
08:26

Santiago de Chile, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The owner of a house that borders a former torture center of the Chilean military dictatorship discovered human remains and war ammunition in its loft, it was learned here recently.

Mississippi sheriff´s deputies fired after Black men allege torture

Published on: June 29, 2023
16:39

Washington, Jun 29 (Prensa Latina) A Mississippi sheriff's department in Rankin County said it had fired multiple deputies after two Black men accused them in a federal lawsuit of beating, torturing and sexually violating them.

Chile and Germany to create memorial site at former Colonia Dignidad

Published on: April 20, 2023
10:08

Santiago de Chile, Apr 20 (Prensa Latina) Chile and Germany plan to establish a space for memory in the former Colonia Dignidad, and to repair the damage caused to the victims of human rights violations there.

US military prison in Guantanamo, a base of injustice and abuses

Published on: February 23, 2023
11:27

Washington, Feb 23 (Prensa Latina) When it seemed impossible that the U.S. government could bring more indignity to the illegally occupied naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the site also became a torture center.

Area occupied by dictatorship’s center probed in Argentina

Published on: July 22, 2022
01:14

Buenos Aires, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) The Argentinean Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) continues the exploratory probes and excavations in the area occupied by the Puesto Vasco Center, where some 70 people were held during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).

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