By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 10 March 2008 Disturbing video of sadistic prison brutality has emerged in Russia. Authorities there do not dispute the images, but claim they are from the early 1990s. Russian human-rights activists say the violence occurred...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 07 March 2008 Millions of people perished in the inhumane Soviet prison system known as the Gulag. Criminals and political prisoners alike suffered merciless beatings, forced labor, and endured temperatures of 40 below zero i...
By Noel King Goma 08 October 2007 The United Nations says the prevalence of sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst in the world. Since fighting erupted in the region six weeks ago between rebels and the Congolese arm...
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