The Latest Breaking News from Torture

“I can't take this torture much longer,” said Oliver Alvis, a train driver who claims he last slept in December 2023.

Large-scale prisoner exchanges have been the only tangible result of three rounds of talks between Russia and Ukraine, between May and July – with the most recent taking place on Sunday. Three civilian women from the Donetsk region who were released on 14 August testified to the torture they endured…

Attorneys representing migrants detained at "Alligator Alcatraz" are escalating their criticism of conditions endured there, with one saying it is "bordering on torture"

The inmates "were waiting for him."

Investigation finds incidents of war crimes and crimes against humanity have escalated since 2021 coup

Investigators name senior figures among those responsible for alleged abuses at detention facilities.

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

Letter: Sonya Sceats says that the ‘one in, one out’ scheme will reopen deep psychological scars in many of those detained