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Inmates, corruption rule Honduras' deadly prisons
Inside one of Honduras' most dangerous and overcrowded prisons, inmates operate a free-market bazaar, selling everything from iPhones to prostitutes.It's more like a fenced-in town than a conventional prison, where raccoons, chickens and pigs wander freely among food stalls and in troughs of open sewage. But guards do not dare cross the painted, yellow "linea de la muerte" (line of death) into the

Teen killed in S.Sudan; antigun campaign continues
Leaders of a minority community said South Sudan troops shot and killed a teenager on Friday while he was fishing, linking the death to the military's disarmament campaign in a conflict-torn state.

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Group: S.Sudan troops kill, torture minority tribe

South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping, torturing and killing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid

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Group: S.Sudan troops kill, torture minority tribe
Aid groups and community leaders in South Sudan say military forces are killing, raping and torturing members of an unpopular minority community during a disarmament campaign.

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California MMA fighter faces trial in grim slaying

A mixed-martial artist accused of ripping out his friend's still-beating heart and removing the man's tongue and skin while he was alive is competent to stand trial on murder, mayhem and torture

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Ex-detainee: Syrian prisons are 'slaughterhouses'

A prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks described the facilities as "human slaughterhouses," saying security agents beat detainees with batons, crammed them

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