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‘It was a torture chamber’: Ugandans abducted in vicious crackdown Jason Burke and Samuel Okiror in Kampala © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jérôme Delay/AP Hundreds of ordinary people suspected of supporting opposition politicians in Uganda have been snatched off the streets by security services in the worst wave of repression in the east African country for decades. Many suffered systematic torture, detention in harsh conditions in often secret prisons and the denial of access to relatives or lawyers. The abductions, which were described in detail to the Guard...

Mob tears down Hindu temple and torch holy shrine in Pakistan Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shah Meer Baloch © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP A violent religious mob has set fire to a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and attempted to tear it to the ground. Crowds of thousands, reportedly led by local Islamic clerics, descended on the Hindu temple located in the village of Teri, in Karak district, on Wednesday and began to rip bricks from the walls and set it on fire. No one was inside the temple at the time. Footage from the scene...