6 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officers sentenced to 15 to 45 years on state charges for torture of 2 Black men
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NBC News ^
| April 10, 2024 | Maria Piñero, Marlene Lenthang and Doha Madani
The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges. The
men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August. McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to...
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California care home for autistic adults is hit by torture scandal after worker 'was filmed beating up two vulnerable residents on same night'
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Daily Mail UK ^
| March 26, 2024 | Emma Richter
A care home in California for autistic adults has been hit with a torture scandal after a former employee was allegedly filmed abusing two 'vulnerable' residents. Adekunle
Fabunmi, 35, has been accused of physically torturing two adults at the Elwyn-Mayall, a four-person home for people with developmental disabilities. Fabunmi was caught on camera by another caregiver as he hit one of the residents, Jude Cabanete, 31, in the head at the Northridge facility. Additional footage, reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, from August 25, showed Fabunmi continuing to hit Jude. On the same night, he punished another resident, Gregorio Topete,...
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Illegal ‘Got-Aways’ Wanted for Murder, Torture, Kidnapping Found Living in U.S.
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Breitbart ^
| 03/25/2024 | John Binder
A pair of illegal aliens, considered “got-aways” after they successfully crossed the nation’s borders illegally and who are wanted for crimes such as murder, torture, and kidnapping, were found living in the United States. Angel Anibal Alvarado Benitez, a 75-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was deported from the United States this
month after having been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in June of last year. Alvarado Benitez is wanted in El Salvador for his role in so-called “death-squad killings” during the country’s civil war. Authorities allege that Alvarado Benitez was involved in the kidnapping, torture, and...
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Russian forces torture Moscow terror suspect by hooking his genitals up to 80v battery leaving him foaming at the mouth
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Daily Mail ^
| 3/24/24 | Frankie Elliott, Will Stewart, Katherine Lawton
Footage of Russian forces torturing the men they arrested over the Moscow terror attack emerged tonight, with one man given electric shocks to his genitals and a second forced to eat his own ear. One
image shows a suspect named as Shamsuddin Fariddun foaming at the mouth as he lies on a gym floor with his trousers pulled down and wires attached to his groin area. At the other end they are attached to a military radio powered by an 80-volt battery. Separate video sees another man, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, having his ear severed and then spitting it out as...
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White former officers get sentences of 10 to 40 years in torture of 2 Black men in Mississippi
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MSN ^
| 3/20 | MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an hourslong attack that included beatings, repeated uses of stun guns
and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the culprits' actions “egregious and despicable" and gave sentences near the top of federal guidelines to five of the six men who attacked Michael Corey Jenkins...
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Two Mississippi officers sentenced in federal 'Goon Squad' torture case
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Reuters ^
| 3/19/2024
Two white former Mississippi sheriff's deputies who belonged to a group calling itself "the Goon Squad" were sentenced on Tuesday to lengthy prison terms for U.S. civil rights violations and other felonies stemming from their torture and sexual abuse of two [black] men.
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Torture Part Of Russia's War Policy In Ukraine: UN Expert
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The Barron's Daily ^
| March 8, 2024 | AFP - Agence France Presse
Russian armed forces and associated groups systematically use torture in occupied areas of Ukraine, pointing to a "deliberate policy", a United Nations expert said on Friday. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, said she had drawn that conclusion following a visit to war-torn Ukraine in September. "The volume of
credible allegations of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment or punishment (indicate that) torture is an element of Russia's war policy," she told the UN Human Rights Council. "These grievous crimes appear to be neither random nor incidental." Speaking to reporters, Edwards said Ukrainian...
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Iran violently clamps down on Christians amid reports of torture, fines and floggings
'No church in the world is growing, secretly, and faster than the Iranian church'
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Fox News ^
| March 3, 2024 | Benjamin Weinthal
Iran claims to allow the country’s Christian minority to practice its faith in peace. The
reality for many Iranian Christians, however, is plagued by whippings, arrests, imprisonment, surveillance and harassment, according to a February report from the religious freedom NGO Article 18. One shocking finding of the Article 18 40-page study, titled "Faceless Victims: Rights Violations Against Christians in Iran," states, "By the end of 2023, at least 17 of the Christians arrested during the summer had received prison sentences of between three months and five years, or non-custodial punishments such as fines, flogging, and in one case the community-service...
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Ongoing sexual torture - "one of the reasons why Hamas is resisting releasing some of the hostages"
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PBS News Hour ^
| 03.04.24
PBS NewsHour, Mar 4, 2024. ClipBennett:
Separately the UN released today a report about sexual violence on October 7th. What did it say? Schifrin: Yea, this report is horrific. It concluded that there is clear and convincing information that sexual violence, including rape, sexualized torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment has been commited againat hostages, and that echoes of course what Israel has been saying happened by Hamas militants on Oct the 7th in Israel. But the report also concludes this, that there are, quote, reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing to those hostages in Gaza...
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Missing Wisconsin boy Elijah Vue, 3, was sent by his mom to boyfriend's house for eight day torture 'boot camp' to 'teach him to be a man', cops say - as pair are charged with neglect
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Daily Mail UK ^
| February 27, 2024 | Will Potter
A missing 3-year-old Wisconsin boy was sent to a torture boot camp 'to teach him to be a man' by his mother before he vanished, prosecutors claimed. Elijah
Vue was last seen on February 20, at a home in Two Rivers where prosecutors said he was sent to stay with her boyfriend for 'disciplinary reasons' before he disappeared. During the boot camp, Vue is said to have been forced to take cold showers, stand for hours on end and endure a dirty diaper. He's also said to have been banned from playing with the only one of his toys at...
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Melbourne anti-Israel activist Laura Allam has been arrested for organising the kidnapping and torture of a man because he worked for a Jew [Islamofascism]
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On X ^
| 27 Feb 2024
Josh Feldman ג'וש פלדמן @joshrfeldman This is absolutely bonkers. Melbourne
anti-Israel activist Laura Allam has been arrested for organising the kidnapping and torture of a man because he worked for a Jew. Police say the man required extensive treatment in hospital for his injuries. #auspol From theaustralian.com.au 5:46 AM · Feb 27, 2024
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Russia uses torture and illegal imprisonment of civilians as weapon of war - Prosecutor General KostinNews Censor.NET War in Ukraine
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Censor.NET ^
| 26.02.24 23:00 | Prosecutor General Kostin
At the International Platform for the Release of Civilians Illegally Detained by the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin said that 204 people have been served with suspicion notices in Ukrainian criminal proceedings regarding the illegal deprivation of liberty of civilians, 158 people are being tried in courts, and 33 people have
been convicted. Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin took part in the launch of the International Platform for the Release of Civilians Illegally Detained by the Russian Federation. This is an important step in the implementation of the Fourth Point of the President's Peace Formula. It aims to unite efforts...
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San Francisco jury returns verdict in torture, poisoning murder
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KRON ^
| Jan 23, 2024 | by: Amy Larson
A San Francisco jury delivered a guilty verdict this week for a gruesome murder involving torture. The
victim, 23-year-old George Randall-Saldivar, was hung by a noose from a ceiling, sodomized, suffocated, and injected with a lethal dose of fentanyl, according to prosecutors. The victim was still alive when he was stuffed into a suitcase and left to die, prosecutors said.
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Janaury 6 Political Hostage Ryan Samsel Describes His Torture In Jail By Staff Members
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| January 26, 2024 | Alicia Powe
My name is Ryan Samsel. I think I should inform the public with updates about my case and my health, as many of you have inquired. Let
me give you a recap and some back story to remind some and inform others. I was scheduled for surgery for a male breast double glansectomy on March 11, 2021. Instead, I was arrested on January 30, 2021, for protesting on January 6, 2021. I told medical staff when I arrived at the jail that I had this condition and that I needed to be placed back on blood thinners. I was denied...
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Freed hostage recounts torture of women in Gaza’s terror tunnels – Washington Post (forced to recite Islamic prayer)
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JPost ^
| 01.18.24
Agam Almog-Goldstein. Photo credit: according to Article 27 A of the Copyright Law. In an interview for international media, Agam Goldstein-Almog discussed Hamas's psychological torture, starvation, and her encounter with other female hostages in the tunnels beneath Gaza. As soon as Agam Goldstein-Almog (17) was abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October
7 in Gaza, she was forced to put on a headscarf and a long dress, commanded to look at the ground, was forced to recite Islamic prayer, and her abductors gave her a name from the Quran, Salsabil, the Washington Post reported on Monday. In an interview with...
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Russia on Death of Gonzalo Lira: “Kiev Is Allowed to Torture and Kill Americans, and Everyone Keeps Their Mouth Shut”
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Gateway Pundit ^
| Jan. 18, 2024 | Richard Abelson
The Kiev regime has been given free rein to do whatever it wants by the West and “is even allowed to torture and kill Americans,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov charged, referring to the death of US YouTuber Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian Prison. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova charged the United States
with “consigning an inconvenient journalist to execution.”“Kiev has unbridled freedom, and this permissiveness is manifested in everything it does. This free rein only leads to disaster. And this disaster has already reached the minds of the current Ukrainian regime, and they are leading their entire country there,” the...
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CONFIRMED: MORE TORTURE REPORTED! Heating System Shut Down on Political Prisoners in DC Gulag – With Freezing Temperatures Outside!
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| January 17, 2024 | Jim Hoft
Political Prisoners at the DC Gulag in Washington DC. Earlier Wednesday The Gateway Pundit was notified that the heating system at the DC Gulag was no longer working. From
our friend and contact L.: “I just got two messages from the DC Gulag. One was from Chris: “We have had no heat or hot water for 48 hours. Inside temperature is probably about 55 degrees (no exaggeration). The guards have on hoodies, jackets, and wool winter hats in the c3a pod. No extra blankets have been passed out. Please blast out a message to local news and online. Tell Congress...
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UN Experts Demand Accountability for Sexual Torture During Hamas' Terror Attack on Israel
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VOA ^
| 1-8-24
An Israeli soldier weeps at the marker for a loved one kidnapped on Oct. 7 in a cross-border attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival, after a press conference at the site in Re'im, southern Israel, Jan. 5, 2024. Two
United Nations rights experts demanded Monday that Hamas be held accountable for a multitude of alleged crimes, including sexual torture, during its terror attack on Israel October 7. Alice Jill Edwards, U.N. special rapporteur on torture, and Morris Tidball-Binz, special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, are independent experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council but do not speak on...
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Rape, Torture, Mutilation and Murder by Hamas Nazis – of Both Men and Women
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Front Page Magazine ^
| December 13, 2023 | Hugh Fitzgerald
More eyewitness accounts have just been released about the sexual assaults, followed by torture and decapitations, of both men and women, carried out by Hamas on October 7. The
story can be found here: “Hamas raped men as well as women during October 7 attack: Investigators reveal how sex assault victims were tied up, stripped and mutilated as Israel launches its ‘biggest ever criminal investigation,’” by Summer Goodkind and David Averre, Daily Mail, December 4, 2023: Israeli investigators probing the fallout of the brutal October 7 attacks have found evidence that men as well as women suffered sexual violence and...
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Torture, humiliation, sexual violence and danger of death: testimonies of those returning from ["Palestinian"] captivity
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Mako ^
| 12.10.23
Torture, humiliation, sexual violence and danger of death: testimonies of those returning from captivity. A
new report collected the testimonies of the Israelis who were released from Hamas - and calls for international action to release the abductees immediately. "and to starvation and mental harm. The headquarters of the families of the abductees published a report today (Sunday) on the conditions in which the abductees are being held in Gaza, as they claimed from the released abductees. In the document, they called for international action due to the violation of the human rights of the abductees that require their urgent...
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