successful coup by an alliance of armed groups from the predominantly Muslim North, the Séléka, who targeted civilians democracy and the 2016 election of Faustin-Archange Touadéra, violence continues to be directed at civilians on the basis of religious and ethnic identity as armed groups often select civilian targets for retaliation

And that on 9 November 2021, Altaf was arrested and tortured to death in police custody and his family In six cases examined by the Guardian of deaths in custody and police shootings of suspects, allegedly and CCTV footage routinely disappears, charges filed to the courts are watered down to “accidental death Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of deaths in police custody in the country. “The police hide these custody deaths when they can get away with it, and won’t even tell the family,

Sudan has been led since August 2019 by a transitional civilian-military administration that has vowed

Khartoum, over the details of an agreement reached earlier this month to establish a joint military-civilian Authorities put the death toll at 61, including three members of the military. The body will have a total of six civilians, including five from the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC The body will be headed by a general during the first 21 months of the transition, followed by a civilian agreement] will set a precedent that we can have a transition jointly managed by the military and the civilians

"Misguided forces that are imposing this lockdown target [on] innocent civilians who have largely rejected

Civilians who survived the occupation have recounted other instances of rape and torture at the hands Some of the hundreds of civilian bodies retrieved from a mass burial site in Izyum showed signs of torture Like many other civilians, Alla and her husband knew they might be safer elsewhere but they feared leaving

third-gender community used their annual celebration to push for answers after two prominent LGBTQ deaths hair in her salon when she heard that one of her oldest friends, Oscar Cazorla, had been stabbed to death But Cazorla’s murder in 2019 — along with the death of another prominent non-binary figure this month “When one hears about tragic deaths, like that of Jesus, who was well-known — an academic, smart and The news of Baena’s death broke just four days before the biggest muxe event of the year, called the

The group reported that Pakistan i security forces, along with allied armed groups known locally as "death identified the victims as 12-year-old Naimat Baloch, Habib Baloch, and Imdad Baloch, describing Naimat's death Paank referred to his death as "a premeditated targeted assassination."

At some point it's got to give, and the government, if they don't step in and start protecting the civilians , the civilians will start protecting themselves." "Two civilian populations going after each other in full-blown warfare, where they stop and kill, and

Islamic State’s regional affiliate, Islamic State-Khorasan Province , which has repeatedly struck Shiite civilians The death toll was expected to rise significantly.

year-old Ramazan Bibi was jailed last April under Pakistan's draconian blasphemy law that carries the death Under the law, anyone accused of insulting Islam can be sentenced to death if found guilty. While authorities have yet to carry out a death sentence for blasphemy, just the accusation of blasphemy She was acquitted after spending eight years on death row and later left Pakistan for Canada to join an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad sentenced three people — two Sunni Muslims and an Ahmadi — to death

, who shared control of the government after a 2021 coup but fell out over a planned transition to civilian