The Latest Breaking News from Torture

In part three of The Standard’s interview with Noureddin Bongo, he speaks about the secret device he smuggled into prison which enabled him to record his captors

Afghan asylum seekers accused of faking torture videos to enter UK, with claims some later returned to Afghanistan for holidays, sparking scrutiny.

‘For this to happen at the scale that it did for as long as it did, there were breakdowns at every single step of the way,” Omar Jimenez said of the two-decade campaign of violence by the Chicago police department, which he explores in a new podcast

At the end of our conversation, Nathan (a pseudonym) kept repeating, almost to himself: “Perhaps we should have done more. Perhaps we could have done more. Perhaps there was something we could have done about the camp itself. About the dogs. We kept on hearing the dogs. Every night.”

Judge slams ‘cavalier acceptance’ of deportation scheme sending African nationals to Ghana, only for the country to send them elsewhere

Ghanaian authorities insist on their claim that the group of 14 African immigrants deported to Ghana by the U.S. have been returned to their home countries

Ever wondered how torture and capital punishment like in the olden times?

Kasim Khan, political leader’s 26-year-old son, claims his father has not been allowed to see his doctor and his access to lawyers is restricted

Parviz Sabeti crafted a low-profile life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit over atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere