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A burned cot in a police station in Kherson on Wednesday. Kherson residents say Russians used the police station to detain and torture violators of curfew and people suspected of collaborating with Ukrainian authorities.

Screams from Russia's alleged torture basements still haunt Ukraine's Kherson

These are just some of the chilling accounts from Ukrainians in Kherson after 8 1/2 months under Russian occupation.

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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Defendant Anwar Raslan (right) and others involved in his trial stand in the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany, at the start of a trial session last month. Raslan was put on trial in April 2020 in a landmark case in Germany.

In a landmark case, a German court convicts an ex-Syrian officer of torture

The world's first criminal trial on torture in Syria's prisons ended Thursday in Koblenz, Germany — the first time a high-ranking ex-Syrian official faced Syrians in open court in a war crimes case.

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By:
  • Deborah Amos