Dutch police have discovered a make-shift torture chamber, nicknamed the ‘treatment room’ by criminals, while investigating the drug trade in the Netherlands. The sound-proofed shipping container, which holds a dentist chair equipped with restraints, was discovered in a warehouse in Wouwse Plantage, a village south of Rotterdam in southwestern Netherlands, close to the border with … Read more
RUSSIA: Dmitry Borisovich Kratov, Chief medical officer at Butyrka Prison, mistreatment of Sergei Magnitsky RUSSIA Oleg Silchenko, Investigator in the Investigative Committee, mistreatment of Sergei Magnitsky RUSSIA: Gennady Vyacheslavovich Karlov, Investigative Committee of the Russian Interior Ministry, failed to investigate mistreatment of Sergei Magnitsky RUSSIA: Natalya Vinogradova, Deputy Head of Department of Ownership and Financial … Read more
I am the treasurer of a 300-year-old bowling club. In October, I received a water bill for £1,335.29 (£1,220.72 actual plus £114.57 estimated). Bills had previously been about £30 per quarter for a kettle and toilet used several evenings per week in the summer. In the winter, I turn off the water at the mains and … Read more
A spring evening and Catherine Searle emerged from her terrace house, carefully crossing the road to the small patch of grass opposite. There she briefly stopped to scatter some breadcrumbs on the ground — an 81-year-old widow feeding the birds. But as she turned to head back home, one hand was dragged across the bonnet of … Read more