The Latest Breaking News from Torture

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The UK supreme court has ruled that a detainee in Guantánamo Bay can sue the UK government under English law over its alleged involvement in his detention and torture. This is the first case concerning the UK government’s liability for its participation in abuses committed by the CIA during the…

Residents of Mel Thattapallam in Kotagiri allege harassment & torture by Forest Department staff investigating poaching of leopard.

Families desperate for news of loved ones held by Russia know the longer they are there the harder their recovery will be

Report also calls for spit hoods to be banned and strip searches to be limited after UN visit last year

Girl who called herself a Satanist began to fantasise about killing people from as young as age 14, Tara Cobham writes

The killers had a fascination for violence, torture and murder and had planned the killing for weeks

Britain's top court ruled Wednesday that a Guantanamo detainee waterboarded by the CIA can use English law in his claim against the UK government over alleged complicity in the torture.

Palestinian national claims British intelligence services asked CIA to put questions to him while he was being tortured in ‘black sites’

The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international organizations. It opened with the news that the United Nations General Assembly had passed a resolution condemning torture, along with a personal message from the U.N. secretary general.

A human rights activist imprisoned for three years in Belarus accused authorities of holding political prisoners in conditions amounting to “torture.”