The Latest Breaking News from Torture

An obscure records request, an ACLU lawsuit, and the 9/11 trial could finally shed light on what the CIA was doing at Guantánamo’s mysterious Camp 7, writes Josh Marcus

Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups

Human rights activists warn that women could be banned from having conversations with one another after the Taliban declared that women's voices as "awrah."

Russia claims control of Selydove, near Pokrovsk; spotlight on Moscow’s expanded use of torture since invasion. What we know on day 980

Olsi Kuka, 25, was attacked by a group of men who burst into his flat in London in May 2022.

Olsi Kuka, 25, was attacked by a group of men who burst into his flat

Ukraine only beginning to grapple with impact of widespread but unspoken abuse

Thomas Kwoyelo, a mid-level commander in the notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Uganda on Friday for war crimes including murder, rape, enslavement, torture and kidnap.

France has a history of granting political asylum to Kurdish nationalists from Turkey who risk prison and torture back home. But recent deportations of Kurdish activists show a growing rift between the French state and its judiciary. One of these deportations has since been ruled illegal on appeal.