Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Torture

Mount Hutton woman accused of masterminding horrific abduction to apply for bail

A Mount Hutton woman accused of masterminding a horrific abduction where another woman was repeatedly tortured over a 24-hour period before allegedly attempting to influence a witness in the case will launch a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court next week.

Newcastle Herald

Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise

Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’

The Guardian - UK

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' family wants all social workers to wear bodycams to spot abuse

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was subjected to a sickening campaign of abuse and torture before he was killed by his stepmum in June 2020 in a case that rocked the nation

Daily Mirror

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The UN committee against torture has found Australia still has work to do

Content warning – this article discusses acts of violence, suicide, and deaths in custody.

The Conversation

ICE accidentally released the identities of 6,252 immigrants who sought protection in US

Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website this week.

Los Angeles Times

Queensland to change laws to allow United Nations physical access to mental health in-patient wards

More than a month after the UN's torture prevention body was denied access to sites where people were detained, new laws will be introduced in Queensland to give inspectors greater access.

ABC News

Scandal-hit Manston centre visited by European torture monitor group

A ‘rapid reaction visit’ was carried out the site in Kent between November 25 to 28

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Conditions at Manston asylum centre prompt torture monitor visit

Council of Europe’s ‘rapid reaction visit’ followed reports of diphtheria outbreak and squalid conditions

The Guardian - UK

‘Every second felt like eternity’: Inside the torture chambers of Ukraine’s occupied northeast

Detention, rape, beatings and executions. Ordinary Ukrainians endured unimaginable horror in areas captured by Russian troops. Bel Trew in Balakiya, Izium, Pisky-Radkivski speaks to those who survived as they try to pick up their shattered lives

The Independent UK

CNN: IRGC Threatened Families of Soccer Team Ahead of Match Against US

The families of Iran’s World Cup soccer team have been threatened with imprisonment and torture if the players fail to “behave” ahead of the match against the USA on Tuesday, CNN cited a source involved in the security of the games as saying. Following the refusal of Iranian players to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brother of Scots groom 'abducted and tortured' in India claims 'blood could be on UK Government's hands'

Gurpreet Singh Johal has expressed his terrifying fears that his brother Jagtar, who is detained by the India authorities, could be subject to the death penalty.

Daily Record

Iran players sing national anthem after being told 'families face prison or torture'

Iran's players have been put under huge political pressure by their country's theocratic government amid huge protests - and they changed their national anthem stance

Daily Mirror

Mum of woman who disappeared from yacht describes 'torture' of not knowing what happened

Sarm Heslop went missing from a catamaran owned and operated by her American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, in the US Virgin Islands last year

Wales Online

'Torture rooms' where prisoners electrocuted found in Kherson after Russians driven out

Russia surrendered Kherson more than two weeks ago, but as investigators move in they have discovered a number of rooms seemingly used to torture members of the Ukrainian population

Daily Mirror

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Ukraine investigates suspected Russian torture sites in liberated Kherson

Kyiv forces entered Kherson on 11 November after the city endured eight months under Russian occupation

The Independent UK

Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation

Ukrainian authorities are investigating sites where torture allegedly took place in the city of Kherson

The Guardian - UK

UK condemns ‘abhorrent’ torture of death row inmate in Saudi Arabia

Foreign Office minister says case of Hussein Abo al-Kheir raised ‘at highest level’ and demands end to executions

Daily Record

Jagtar's family concerned over new bill to give effective criminal immunity for ‘enabling torture overseas'

Jagtar has been imprisoned in India for over five years after being accused of helping to fund a Sikh-on-Hindu assassination plot, which his family strongly denies.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The New Daily

UN calls for Australia to end mandatory detention for asylum seekers

The UN Committee against Torture has urged Australia to end mandatory detention for all illegal arrivals, including children.

The Guardian - AU

Australia must end solitary confinement of children, UN committee against torture says

‘Serious concern’ raised about ‘very low’ age of criminal responsibility in report issued after suspended tour

The Conversation

How the Canada Border Services Agency tolerates and even encourages refugee mistreatment

Refugee advocates have long known about systemic problems with immigration enforcement in Canada, resulting in wrongful detentions and deportations, as well as people being tortured upon return to their countries of origin.

The Guardian - UK

‘Soldiers without the uniforms’: Kherson couple recall anti-Russia resistance

A young couple who helped citizens and Kyiv’s army tell of torture and endurance during the Russian onslaught

The Guardian - UK

Britain is a ‘bifurcated place nowadays’, says Julian Barnes

Author and patron for torture-survivor charity criticises politicians for encouraging ‘mean-spiritedness’

Al Jazeera

Tanzanians sue Canada’s Barrick Gold over alleged abuses at mine

Tanzanian villagers accuse Canadian mining giant of being complicit in killings and torture at the North Mara gold mine.

Reuters

Art or torture? France debates banning bullfighting

Sixteen-year old Baptiste is training to be a bullfighter in the southern French city of Arles and says lawmakers who want to ban it across the country simply do not comprehend what he calls an art.

1 … 48 49 50 51

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.