The Latest Breaking News from Torture

Moscow’s forces home in on energy infrastructure as winter starts to bite

The United Nations grills Australia over its treatment of people in youth and immigration detention, describing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in detention as "horrific".

As violence escalates in Ukraine, human rights abuses have become widespread

David Davis bringing amendments to strip ‘unconscionable’ clauses of National Security Bill

The resident has been left at her wit's end as the noisy boiler regularly disturbs her sleep - and she struggles to get more than two hours of shut-eye per night

The family of Katie Kenyon have spoken of their torture caused by her murderer Andrew Burfield who axed her to death and left her body in a shallow grave in a forest, and seeing her 'bruised' body in a mortuary

Ukrainian interior minister Denys Monastyrsky said the investigation into Russian crimes in Kherson had only just begun "so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered"

Martin McGinley was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday after being found guilty of engaging in abusive behaviour towards his former partner, who said she endured mental torture at his hands.

More than 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity on Thursday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Russian missiles pounded energy facilities in yet another barrage targeting civilian infrastructure across the country. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1)

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for the torture killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in 1993

A top Ukrainian human rights investigator on Thursday released a video of what he said was a torture chamber used by Russian forces in the recently liberated Kherson region, including a small room in which he said up to 25 people were kept at a time.