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By Lorraine Orlandi MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Psychology professor Enrique Aranda had never crossed paths with Mexico's police and courts until an evening out with his brother nine years ago gave him a taste of hell. Aranda and his brother Adrian, an accountant, were arrested after leaving a Mexico City diner and taken to a city police barracks where they were punched in the stomach and beaten on their backs with nightsticks. Plastic bags were held over their heads as they began...

By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain's Home Secretary complained to the United Nations on Tuesday that it should support rather than criticize London's efforts to make it easier to deport foreign militants to countries suspected of using torture. Britain, under pressure to take a tough line against hard-line Islamists after July bombings in London which killed 52 people, has asked Jordan, Egypt, Algeria and others to agree in advance not to torture anybody that London...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Civil rights lawyers on Monday asked a rights panel to investigate allegations that Chicago police detectives used electric shock and other forms of torture to extract confessions from black suspects. The lawyers said the request for a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was meant to shame authorities who failed to prosecute up to 20 detectives said to have carried out abuse from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Several civil cases have wound...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An unprecedented report from Iran's conservative judiciary acknowledged that human rights violations were widespread in prisons, the ISNA students news agency said on Saturday. According to ISNA, the report said prisoners faced solitary confinement, torture, unwarranted arrest and possibly sexual harassment when detained by Iran's judiciary, military and police. Iran's former reformist-dominated parliament last year wrote into law an order from Judiciary Chief Ayatollah...