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Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been released, after enduring seven years of imprisonment and torture. John Pilger, her legal team and activists tell RT what Manning’s release means to them, and the journey it took to get here. May 17 doesn’t just signal freedom for Manning, it’s a date that many who have supported and fought […]
If you dread the gym, it might not surprise you the treadmill was originally a device used to punish prison inmates. But how far have we really moved away from the idea of exercise as punishment? CBC | Health News
Published time: 10 Mar, 2017 12:46 An Indian mother was reportedly locked in a room while her children were electrocuted by their father and grandmother in an exorcism ritual. The grandmother reportedly convinced her son to carry out the electrocution so she could achieve enlightenment. Nirmal Kaur and her son Kulwinder Singh were arrested in […]
It’s hard to know what is most shocking. The new movie has received an R-rating in the US and shows disturbing scenes of young women being tied up and beaten but also shows them taking their revenge on their abusers. Both circumstances seem to involve a lot of nudity. However, it is probably the sight […]
If you dread the gym, it might not surprise you that the treadmill was originally a device used to punish prison inmates. As the treadmill turns 200, The Current looks at how far we’ve really moved away from the idea of exercise as punishment. CBC | Health News
Prisons in the UK are keeping teenage offenders in solitary confinement despite the government denying the practice is still in use, an investigation has found. Young offenders institutions (YOI), which imprison 15- to 18-year-olds, are allegedly using solitary confinement, which can cause mental health issues for inmates, according to the Independent. Prison inspection reports found […]
A US Navy veteran suffered a skull fracture while trying to stop three men from torturing a turtle outside his Daytona Beach, Florida residential complex. The trio has been arrested and faces assault and animal cruelty charges. The turtle died. Gulf War veteran Gary Blough’s wife Jennifer was walking with their daughter around the pond […]
BBC This retelling of Haley’s novel is determined to make the viewer think of the ugly, historical truth Since we lived near Liverpool and I’d been taken to see the iron rings at the docks where the slaves had been chained up, the two became fused together. I’ve never thought of docks, or ships, or […]
President Donald Trump’s embrace of torture in the fight against what he calls Islamic extremism sets up a heated dispute with a long line of opponents, both at home and abroad, of Bush-era interrogation policies and CIA-run “black site” prisons. CBC | World News
