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Landmark trial in Paris as Syrian officials face charges for torture and killings during civil war.

In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek to determine whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son

A defence treaty between Fiji and Australia should require human rights abuses vetting, after a colonel accused of torture was appointed to the Australian Army.

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

A PALESTINIAN professor with Robert Gordon University gave a powerful speech in which he detailed his experience of torture at the hands of the…

With thousands now held without charge, lawyers say Israel is signalling that no detainee is safe

The Madras High Court has directed Villupuram Collector to exhume the body of an individual suspected to have died due to custodial torture

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Tunisian capital after a lawyer was allegedly tortured by police.

Charity that challenged UK’s Rwanda policy helps create space designed to evoke happier memories of homelands

Supreme Court examines alleged custodial torture leading to death of painter, raising questions on police accountability and justice.

Edel Hsieh, who is linked to HyperVerse CEO, alleges police tortured him into signing a false confession