Torture News
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Berlin -
Germany charged two alleged former Syrian secret service officers with participating in crimes against humanity, in what rights activists said Tuesday would be the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
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Connaught Place -
The soldiers came after midnight, Abid Khan says, his hands trembling, one of around two dozen young men in just one part of Kashmir who say they have been tortured by the Indian army.
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Caracas -
The United States and Venezuela's opposition on Sunday condemned the death under "torture" of a naval officer detained for alleged trying to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
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Srinagar -
Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released Monday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation.
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Managua -
One Nicaraguan guard pinned his hand to a table with his knee while another ripped out a nail with a pair of pliers. Opposition supporter Lenin Rojas, recently released from prison to house arrest, says he screamed in pain.
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Strasbourg -
The Council of Europe on Monday criticised Russia for failing to halt police torture of detainees in Chechnya, after an investigation found "credible allegations" of mistreatment of people in custody.
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New York -
The United Nations has asked authorities in the Central African Republic to take action after Russian soldiers or mercenaries were accused of detaining and torturing a man for five days, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Moscow -
A military court has upheld murder and torture convictions against senior security and police officers from Russia's North Caucasus, a rights activist said Friday, in what he described as rare ruling.
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Moscow -
Russia on Thursday said no sign of torture was found on the bodies of three Russian journalists killed during a reporting trip in the Central African Republic this week.
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Beirut -
Lebanon must investigate the account of a prominent actor who says he was forcibly disappeared and tortured by state security forces last year, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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Geneva -
Detainees in Iran appear to be systematically subjected to torture and abuse, including sexual violence, a UN report published Monday found, also condemning the denial of medical treatment to prisoners.
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Geneva -
The UN's top expert on torture on Wednesday said reports from sources indicated at least one inmate was still being tortured at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay and reiterated his request to visit.
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Berlin -
Syrian refugees in Germany backed by human rights groups said Wednesday they had filed new criminal complaints accusing President Bashar al-Assad's regime of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Ankara -
Human Rights Watch claimed Thursday there was growing evidence of detention abuses in Turkey after last year's failed coup, warning that torture in police custody had become a "widespread" problem.
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Berlin -
More than 27,000 images of torture and killings allegedly perpetrated by the Assad regime in Syria have been handed to German prosecutors who are investigating possible abuses, a rights group said Friday.
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New York -
About 60 countries led by the European Union on Monday launched a bid at the United Nations to end the trade in goods like electro-shock batons and lethal drugs used to carry out torture and death sentences.
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Washington -
Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program settled a lawsuit Thursday by detainees alleging they were illegally tortured.
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London -
A British court on Friday denied bail to an ex-wife of jailed former Liberian president Charles Taylor, ahead of her trial on charges of torture during his rebellion.
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Washington -
Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 detainee interrogation program will stand trial in September for promoting the use of torture methods like water-boarding, starvation and chaining prisoners in extreme stress positions.
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Bejing -
Chinese police and prosecutors are banned from using torture to obtain evidence under rules released Tuesday, in the latest attempt to curb forced confessions in the country's criminal justice system.
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Geneva -
President Donald Trump's defence of torture has set a precedent for other countries to follow, even if the US does not act on it, a UN official said Friday.
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Washington -
President Donald Trump's advocacy of waterboarding and the promotion of a CIA official who once led brutal interrogations have raised concerns that the United States could yet resume torturing suspects in its fight against Islamist extremists.
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Geneva -
The United Nations' top torture expert warned US President Donald Trump on Monday that endorsing waterboarding and other abuse as an interrogation technique would be illegal and have disastrous global consequences.
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Once again, our tremendous political correspondents wade into the swamp of intrigue surrounding Washington to offer their hard-nosed softball opinions.
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Varsovia -
Poland on Thursday ruled out allowing the United States to base secret prisons on its soil if President Donald Trump reinstated the so-called CIA "black sites" overseas.
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President Barack Obama leaves behind a criminal legacy on war, torture and Guantánamo Bay. This isn't hyperbole, it's legal fact, as what follows will amply demonstrate.
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Chicago -
Four Chicago-area young adults, all African American, have been charged with a hate crime, aggravated kidnapping and other offenses after allegedly posting a Facebook Live video in which they tortured a mentally disabled man while shouting racial slurs.
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A recent poll by the International Red Cross (ICRC) shows more Americans and other westerners are more likely to accept torture, harsh interrogation techniques and indiscriminate bombing than they were in 1999.
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Geneva -
A vast Red Cross survey published Monday indicated that acceptance of torture during war has increased dramatically in recent decades, with fewer than half of people now categorically rejecting the practice.
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Ankara -
Measures taken in Turkey after the July 15 coup attempt created an "environment conducive to torture", and ill treatment appears to have been widespread immediately after the failed putsch, a UN expert said Friday.
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Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun presents a new documentary about the survivors of dictator Hissein Habre's torture chambers on May 16, 2016 during the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Loic Venance, AFP/File
Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Video screen capture
Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry. Screenshot from torture video
'Trophy' photograph taken by an Indonesian soldier
after he and his comrades murdered Ninuor Kwalik
and his 12 year old nephew Daugunme in 1998, West
Papua. © Survival
Diane Beaver, a major subject in the film The Guantanamo Trap Hot Docs
Deviant Art/Creative Commons
Former vice president Dick Cheney. tswartz/flickr
Louise Anna Turpin, 49, and David Allen Turpin, 57, have been arrested after authorities said their 13 children had been held captive in their home, with some shackled to beds. Bill Wechter/AFP / Jose ROMERO, Riverside County Sheriff's Department
An illustrative depiction of torture in a North Korean gulag imugr
John Yoo. Yoo Tube/wikimedia commons
Naiel Thejel Ganeen, a leader of the Sabian Mandaean community, was kidnapped in 2006 and held for nine days of torture, and repeatedly referred to as an infidel. He was released after kidnappers received a $40,000 ransom, but is left with a scarred arm suffered from shrapnel in a mock execution. Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch
John Kiriakou, CIA Torture Whistleblower Video screen capture
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