The Latest Breaking News from Torture

An international rights group says Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip systematically torture critics in detention, a practice that could amount to crimes against humanity

The Royal Thai Police (RTP) has been ordered to pay 3.38 million baht in compensation plus 7.5% interest to a man who was wrongfully arrested and tortured by the police in 2009.

A well-crafted study of a neglected artist who died after the plane he was flying disappeared during the second world war

Eskander Turki, 29, has a “dream life” in Belfast, where he met his wife, chef Amina Ahmed, 25, in the summer of 2021 and works as an ice cream maker

Eskander Turki fled his native Ethiopia after being held in an underground cell where he was 'tortured, burned and beaten' for attending a protest

Dame Kelly revealed her decades of mental and emotional torture as she hid her sexuality from the world despite her own mother telling her to be honest with people

A UN committee excoriates the Government’s foot-dragging response over tortured children

After the Tories' disastrous by-election results in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, some Tory MPs may be looking at Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as a potential replacement for Boris Johnson...

Report says Maks Levin, 40 and soldier Oleksiy Chernyshov may have been tortured before being killed

South Africa’s history of discrimination, racial segregation and extralegal violence has influenced patterns of violence today. Colonial and apartheid governments ruled through violence and racial oppression. Whether through torture, corporal punishment or killings, black lives were deemed infinitely expendable.

Nicaraguan government operatives threatened Mario Rajib Flores Molina with torture and imprisonment. A new court ruling has revived his pursuit of asylum in the United States.