The Latest Breaking News from Torture

Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese ‘does not object’ to release of report detailing sexual abuse, so long as it is accurate

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore does not oppose the Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s efforts to make public a report detailing sexual abuse and torture committed by area priests and laypeople over 80 years, so long as it is accurate, a spokesperson for the church said Friday.

Tribune News Service · Nov 19, 2022

U.S. report says hundreds were detained, missing in Ukraine's Kherson

Hundreds of people were detained or went missing in Ukraine's Kherson region while it was under Russian control this year, and dozens may have been tortured, Yale University researchers have concluded in a report backed by the U.S. State Department.

Reuters · Nov 18, 2022

Kherson's newly liberated residents wonder: Who collaborated with the Russians?

KHERSON, Ukraine — First came rejoicing. Now comes the reckoning.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 18, 2022

Ukraine-Russia news - live: New Putin missile attacks prompt fresh power outage fears

Moscow’s forces home in on energy infrastructure as winter starts to bite

The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2022

Australia facing questions at the UN about 'horrific' issues and 'significant concerns'

The United Nations grills Australia over its treatment of people in youth and immigration detention, describing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in detention as "horrific".

ABC News · Nov 17, 2022

'I thought I was going to die': Abuses widespread in Ukraine

As violence escalates in Ukraine, human rights abuses have become widespread

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

Government plan to give immunity to ministers, spies and military involved in murder and torture abroad OLD

David Davis bringing amendments to strip ‘unconscionable’ clauses of National Security Bill

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

'My neighbour's noisy boiler wakes me up every 20 minutes all night long - it's torture'

The resident has been left at her wit's end as the noisy boiler regularly disturbs her sleep - and she struggles to get more than two hours of shut-eye per night

Daily Mirror · Nov 17, 2022

'Torture' for family of axe killer's victim unable to hold her 'bruised' body in morgue

The family of Katie Kenyon have spoken of their torture caused by her murderer Andrew Burfield who axed her to death and left her body in a shallow grave in a forest, and seeing her 'bruised' body in a mortuary

Daily Mirror · Nov 17, 2022

Inside Russian 'torture dungeon' in liberated Kherson where Ukrainians were held

Ukrainian interior minister Denys Monastyrsky said the investigation into Russian crimes in Kherson had only just begun "so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered"

Daily Mirror · Nov 17, 2022