The Latest Breaking News from Torture

A family yearns for answers years after Turkish refugee’s torture, death

In 2022, the Turkish coastguard found Baris Buyuksu barely alive with signs of torture, in the Aegean Sea.

Al Jazeera · May 30, 2024

California Man Gets $900,000 Settlement for 'Psychological Torture' During 17-Hour Police Interrogation

Detectives in Fontana, California, told Thomas Perez Jr. that his father was dead and that he killed him. Neither was true.

Reason · May 28, 2024

Powerful Words from Texans Trapped in Solitary Confinement

Texas disappears more people in long-term solitary cells than all other states and the federal system combined.

Texas Observer · May 28, 2024

Landmark Paris trial of Syrian officials accused of torturing, killing a father and his son starts

The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials has begun at a Paris court for the alleged torture and killing of a French-Syrian father and son who were arrested over a decade ago, during the height of Arab Spring-inspired anti-government protests

The Independent UK · May 21, 2024

Paris Trial To Determine Responsibility For Syrian Disappearances

Landmark trial in Paris as Syrian officials face charges for torture and killings during civil war.

Top News · May 21, 2024

Why is France trying top Syrian former officials for alleged torture and killing of father and son?

In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek to determine whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son

The Independent UK · May 21, 2024

Human rights vetting urged for Fiji defence treaty

A defence treaty between Fiji and Australia should require human rights abuses vetting, after a colonel accused of torture was appointed to the Australian Army.

AAP · May 20, 2024

Syrian exiles hunt down Assad’s torturers in gripping Cannes thriller

“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke to French director Jonathan Millet, whose impressive Cannes debut delivered one of the festival’s early hits.

France 24 · May 18, 2024

'It leaves a scar': Palestinian professor details experience of torture by Israel

A PALESTINIAN professor with Robert Gordon University gave a powerful speech in which he detailed his experience of torture at the hands of the…

The National (Scotland) · May 18, 2024

Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

With thousands now held without charge, lawyers say Israel is signalling that no detainee is safe

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2024