A company that handles prisoners' phone calls, including with their lawyers, records them all. Even when prisoners talk with their lawyers. Someone just got these recordings and leaked them.

Leaking them en mass was wrong, but not as wrong about what this company (Insecurus?) did.

Someone, presumably supporters of PISSI, murdered some Afghan Shi'ites by beheading them.

In response, crowds tried to storm the presidential palace, crying "Death to [President] Ghani, death to the Taliban."

I don't see why they want the former; but if Afghans remain fired up to fight the Taliban, they may have what it takes to defeat the Taliban.

Timothy Johnson was convicted of murder based on a false confession, then exonerated as there was no real evidence against him. He says that the thugs dangled him off the side of a bridge to get him to confess.

They also laid false charges against his parents to put pressure on him.

Two British journalists imprisoned in Indonesia say that naval officers paid close attention to their case, while the UK's supposed help was incompetent.

Even though they had money to pay for some privileges in prison, they could not avoid the dirty food, and they could not get medicine when they got sick.

Modern slavery can be found in any industry.

Employers want immigrants to undercut wages for everyone else. Sometimes the immigrants are entirely willing. Sometimes they are threatened, exploited, or imprisoned. Either way, the overall result is that business owners around the world get more money, and workers get less.