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‘We won’t let them get away with this’: activists to sue Tanzania’s government over ‘sexual torture’

Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire vow to hold authorities accountable as repression intensifies before October elections

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2025

Police torture, ill-treatment make India ‘high risk’: Report

India has been ranked a “high-risk” country for torture and ill-treatment in the World Organization Against Torture’s first Global Torture Index 2025 that was released on Wednesday.

Newslaundry · Jun 25, 2025

‘Rewarding lawlessness’: Migrants face ‘torture and death’ as Supreme Court greenlights Trump’s deportation plan

The rule of law seems to flexible.

We Got This Covered · Jun 24, 2025

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Mini PC 'violently' smashed with a sledgehammer, dragged behind a motorbike, and spun in a washing machine - Geekom PC still works after the company's extreme torture testing

Geekom has shared a video which shows its latest IT15 Mini-PC being subjected to unnatural levels of violence.

Tom’s Hardware · Jun 24, 2025

Trump can send deportees to South Sudan and other third-party countries, Supreme Court says

Sonia Sotomayor blasts conservative justices for ‘rewarding lawlessness’ from the Trump administration

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2025

Supreme Court lets Trump restart deporting migrants to ‘third countries’

Dissenting justice warns court actions expose ‘thousands to the risk of torture or death’.

Al Jazeera · Jun 23, 2025

Georgia dad learns fate after subjecting children to ‘extreme bootcamp’ punishments likened to ‘torture’

Carey Clark and Nora Rodgers withheld food from the children and inflicted physical injuries for years

The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2025

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Reporter's prison torture cost of political posturing

Being a human pawn in geopolitical chess became Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei's fate while imprisoned by China for more than three years.

AAP · Jun 17, 2025

German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment

Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon.

Euronews · Jun 16, 2025

German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in prison for torture and war crimes in his homeland

A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2025

German Court To Rule In Case Of Syrian 'Torture' Doctor

A German court will rule Monday on the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity under former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime.

International Business Times · Jun 16, 2025

Man remains behind bars over torture, abuse of baby

A man is accused of the torture and physical abuse of a seven-week-old baby boy which appeared to be prolonged, in what police say is a deeply confronting case.

AAP · Jun 15, 2025

UK spy agencies too slow to realise CIA was mistreating prisoners after 9/11, government admits

Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

International investigation reveals Wagner Group's secret prisons in Mali

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium – which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 – reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods…

Radio France Internationale · Jun 12, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025

Ukrainian held by Russia describes torture, sinister threats and Kafkaesque court process

Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’

Newslaundry · Jun 11, 2025

Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025

Surviving Syria’s Prisons review – consistently shocking and unforgettably moving

This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime

The National (Scotland) · Jun 10, 2025

Woman jailed in Scotland for sharing 'monkey torture' videos online

A WOMAN has been sentenced in connection with possessing and distributing material online related to the torture of monkeys in the first case of its…

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025

TV tonight: a horrifying look inside the prison walls of the Assad regime

Confessions of ex-prison guards are woven with the story of two incarcerated brothers who recall torture so cruel it’s hard to fathom. Here’s what to watch this evening

We Got This Covered · Jun 9, 2025

Tragic end for missing Denver stylist Jax Gratton: Body found as chilling torture rumors collapse

A cause of death has not yet been determined.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025

Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial

Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

Family of teenage girl allegedly tortured and murdered by man she met on Grindr sues app

‘Without Grindr, we believe that Miranda would have never met this Steven Gress character, and she’d still be alive,’ the lawsuit states

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

2nd suspect in Manhattan crypto kidnapping and torture case indicted

A second man charged in the kidnapping and torture of an Italian man for his Bitcoin has been indicted

Evening Standard · May 30, 2025

Westminster Council appeals judge ruling that led to Leicester Square busker ban

Musicians blasting out songs on a daily basis in the West End tourist hotspot was compared to ‘psychological torture’ by a judge

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

Cop on NYC Mayor Adams’ security team eyed for links to ‘crypto king’ chainsaw torture: report

One of detectives allegedly picked up victim from airport

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