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The UK government has paid “substantial” compensation to a Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by the CIA and has been held there without charge...
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Venezuela announced a probe Monday into torture claims by 252 migrants the United States had sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison where they said...
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For almost two years, Emad Mouawad had been repeatedly shuttled from one Sudanese paramilitary-run detention centre to another, terrified each day would be his...
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The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the now-collapsed government of Bashar...
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Georgian police raided the offices of opposition parties on Wednesday after the government vowed to crack down on those organising pro-EU protests, deepening a...
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A Paraguayan court has sentenced an 87-year-old former policeman to 30 years in jail for brutal torture carried out during the country’s military dictatorship,...
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Five decades ago, he was a feared policeman nicknamed “the Whip,” an enforcer of Paraguay’s military dictatorship. Today, aged 87, Eusebio Torres is finally...
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A top United Nations expert on Thursday urged law enforcement agencies around the world to ban 20 “modern-day torture tools,” such as spiked batons,...
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Syria faces allegations at the UN top court Tuesday that it maintains a “pervasive” system of torture that has killed tens of thousands of...
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For the first time since Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, a victim who says he was tortured by the dictator’s regime will testify before...