A shocking story has come out from Pirmahal in Toba Tek Singh, where police have booked three people, including a woman, for kidnapping and raping a blind married woman. The victim says she was held captive for six months, raped many times and even forced to beg on the streets. According to the first information […]
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Freed Nicaraguan prisoner tells of torture
One Nicaraguan guard pinned his hand to a table with his knee while another ripped out a nail with a pair of pliers. Opposition supporter Lenin Rojas, recently released from prison to house arrest, says he screamed in pain. The 36-year-old says his cry was heard throughout the El Chipote prison in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. […]
Vietnam woman in Kim brother’s murder to be freed on May 3
A Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will walk free on May 3, her lawyer said Saturday. Following diplomatic pressure from the Vietnamese government, Malaysian prosecutors had dropped the murder charge against Doan Thi Huong on April 1. Subsequently, the 30-year-old former hair salon worker pleaded guilty […]
Russian officials agree to free ‘whale jail’ animals
Russia on Monday signed an agreement with a group of international scientists to free nearly 100 whales that have been held for months in cramped pens in Russia’s Far East, a scandal that has triggered a wave of criticism. Images of the 10 orcas and 87 beluga whales, kept in enclosures in a bay near […]
Ugandan police say kidnapped US woman and driver are freed
Ugandan police said on Sunday they had rescued an American woman and her driver who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a national park. The two “are in good health” and “in the safe hands” of security officials, police said in a Twitter update. Although authorities provided no details about how the rescue operation was […]