The Latest Breaking News from Torture

Stepmother sentenced to life in prison for torture murder of three-year-old girl

Bella Seachrist died in June 2020 after being starved, tortured and physically abused by her stepmother

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

Social media users abusing monkeys in sickening videos for money and hits

Exclusive: Baby animals tortured, killed and have limbs amputated in horrific clips of physical and psychological torment, research finds

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

A panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic. A judge will rule whether he can stand trial

A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023

Zimbabwe's reelected president says there's democracy. But beating and torture allegations emerge

Lawyers for an opposition party councilor in Zimbabwe say he and a relative were abducted, beaten and whipped by unknown men amid a post-election crackdown on criticism of recently reelected President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2023

Women who were denied emergency abortions file lawsuits in three states: ‘Torture no one should have to face’

Lawsuits want to clarify abortion ban exceptions for ‘medical emergencies’ in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023

‘A fascist tried to electrocute us on stage’: the musicians who took on the Chilean junta

Under Pinochet, artistic expression in Chile was its own form of resistance. Fifty years on from the coup, performers are keeping the flame of protest alight

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

14 Siblings, Incl. A Baby, Have Been Rescued From ‘Atrocious’ Alleged Abuse & Torture In Sydney

Police were alerted after the two eldest daughters began secretly recording the alleged abuse in order to take it to authorities.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 11, 2023

‘I log into a torture chamber each day’: the strain of moderating social media

As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

Social media platforms to face £18m fines for publishing animal cruelty content

In a change to the online safety bill, tech firms will have to proactively prevent material that facilitates animal torture from being posted

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023

Foreign Office apologises to academic for failing to spot torture signs

Matthew Hedges was detained in Abu Dhabi between May and November 2018, after being accused of working for MI6.

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2023