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Hamas alleges abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli authorities, calling for international intervention. Released inmates reported beatings...

Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, said Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men are now being forcibly conscripted to fight for both the junta and the rebels. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh

Rome’s Samifo Centre helps asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced torture, persecution or violence

Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife were the victims of a kidnap for ransom plot last week, but they were rescued by French authorities after the kidnappers mutilated one of the crypto executive's fingers.

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11…

Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain.

Those who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive states give a rare glimpse into their horrific ordeal in the country’s vast gulag system

A CHILD psychotherapist working for an Edinburgh charity, who disappeared after being picked up by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) in war-torn Gaza,…

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall -– an expression of pain and love.

Mexican YouTuber El Pinky was reportedly tortured and killed by a Mexican cartel, who accused him of working with a rival gang.