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On 14 June, three boxes containing records of brutal torture and repression suffered under two decades of Brazilian military rule were returned to the South American country from Switzerland, where the material has resided at the World Council of Churches archives.

Brazil was under a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. The material will add more documentation for people seeking compensation for their sufferings

 

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Pakistan police this month tortured a young Christian woman into revealing the whereabouts of the legal team helping her family after an influential Muslim family kidnapped her and her sister, sources said.

Police also helped the Muslim family beat relatives of the Christian woman on court premises and attacked the offices of the organization trying to help her family, they said.

 

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Jeffs is charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child — one of them aggravated sexual assault because the child was 14 years old — both at a time when Jeffs was about 50 years old.

The aggravated charge is a first-degree felony charge of five to 99 years in prison and the other is a second-degree felony charge of two to 20 years in prison.

 

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