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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. Intentional and unlawful killings of individuals by state actors without judicial process This painting, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, depicts the summary execution of Spaniards by French forces after the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid. An extrajudicial killing (also known as ...
[6] [7] With 140 police killings in a population of 3 million, "Jamaica’s police force [is] among the deadliest in the world". [8] It has been discussed [who?] that the use of psychiatric treatments to reduce unwanted behaviors can be seen as extrajudicial punishments, due to many side-effects associated to these treatments. [9]
The guards then opened fire, killing six prisoners and wounding 20. Government negotiators, including Abdullah Senussi , then met with prisoner representatives who asked for improved conditions, care for the sick and trials to be made in order to prove the innocence of these wrongfully convicted prisoners.
In this Oct. 17, 2018 file photo, former Army General Mario Montoya arrives to testify before a peace tribunal investigating his role in extrajudicial killings of civilians during Colombia's long ...
The movement involved hundreds of women who had lost their husbands, brothers, and sons and decided to voice their concerns publicly. The demonstrators had explicit requests: they demanded a halt to forced disappearances and unlawful killings, and they sought accountability for those implicated in the unlawful killings of Baloch youth. [5]
The county's armed forces have been accused of atrocities and extrajudicial killings. According to Human Rights Watch, the military massacred more than 220 civilians - including at least 56 ...
In the first six months of 2024, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said it had documented at least nine cases of extrajudicial killings of former members of the security forces and nearly 100 ...
The death squads allegedly committed "extrajudicial killings of civilians, forced disappearances of detainees, and attacks on healthcare facilities that treat insurgents," according to Vice's reporting on the contents of the Human Rights Watch report. [3]