Supermarket Co-op has said it will no longer sell coconut milk sourced from Thailand, after campaigning by an animal rights group that accused coconut farms in the country of using monkey labour. Instead, the grocer’s own brand of coconut milk is sourced
Elisabeth Fritzl, who was held captive by her father Josef Fritzl for 24 years, has found love with a bodyguard and is living a secret new life. Elisabeth, now 57, was kept in a cellar from the age of 18 to 42,
The University of Bristol is to remove the dolphin emblem of merchant and slave trader Edward Colston from its logo. It comes after Colston’s city centre statue was pulled down and thrown into the harbour during a protest in 2020. The university
A Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of
Nathan Nearest Green rose from the inhumanity of slavery to lift American spirits around the world. Green lived in bondage in the years before the Civil War. He operated a farmhouse distillery for minister slave owner and grocery-store operator Dan Call in
A man in Russia has been accused of kidnapping a woman and keeping her as his sex slave in a makeshift dungeon for 14 years. Vladimir Cheskidov, 51, allegedly raped the woman, identified only by her first name, Ekaterina, more than 1,000
A cheating wife and her lover who enslaved her “vulnerable” disabled husband leaving him to live in squalor have been jailed for 11 years. Sarah Somerset-How, 49, and George Webb, 40, were found guilty of holding Tom Somerset-How in slavery/servitude and three
A German woman was convicted Wednesday of keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave during her time with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, and sentenced to nine years and three months in prison. The state court in the western
A “repugnant” memorial to a slave owner which praises him for quelling a rebellion has been removed from a church to a museum in the first relocation of its kind. The plaque in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester, Dorset, commemorates John Gordon who
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has rejected calls from the opposition party to issue an apology for the United Kingdom’s role in slave trading or to discuss reparations. “What I think our focus should now be on doing is, of course, understanding