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Shakira Spencer’s former neighbour, her partner and their friend beat and starved her in what judge called ‘a sadistic campaign’

Italy’s highest court has ruled that the country’s vessels cannot return rescued refugees to the North African country.

How do you feel about gyms? For a lot of people, going to the gym for a good workout sounds like torture. Not because they hate exercising, but because of the toxic gym culture where instead of being allowed to exercise in peace, people who are not in the shape…

Sandeshkhali violence: Trinamool Congress leader chased by villagers in West Bengal amid allegations of land grab and torture.

Lawyers posed the pivotal question: how can exposing crime and torture be worse than committing them, says former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

The fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin understood that he might never leave prison alive

Two years after Russia's full-scale invasion began, around a fifth of Ukrainian territory remains under Russian occupation – a repressive regime where arbitrary detentions, beatings and torture are the norm. Victims and activists want to ensure that such war crimes don't go unpunished; Ukrainian courts have already tried some perpetrators,…

It's 1992, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are on the cusp of superstardom, and unhappy guitarist John Frusciante has just been kicked

A Paraguayan court has sentenced an 87-year-old former policeman to 30 years in jail for brutal torture carried out during the country's military dictatorship, according to the ruling released on Tuesday.

Israel stepped up its arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank, and mistreatment of prisoners in its overstuffed jails.

Five decades ago, he was a feared policeman nicknamed "the Whip," an enforcer of Paraguay's military dictatorship.