The Latest Breaking News from Torture

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on their…

Elizabeth 'Countess Blood' Bathory is believed to have murdered 650 young female victims over 20 years - carrying out sadistic acts of mutilation and torture in the process

"While trying to destroy my life, he actually destroyed his own. He tried to lie and come after a member of my family with false evidence.”

Role of officers accused of manhandling Sajeevan to be examined

Russian contracted soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine are allegedly being held in custody in Luhansk in horrendous conditions after commanders reneged on a leave agreement

Braverman had wanted to ‘eliminate’ protections against torture, using the policy as a pretext

Agnieska Kalinowska and Andrezj Latoszewski have been found guilty of murdering Sebastian Kalinowski

Three police officers suspended in quick action

Russian foreign minister signals plans to annex Ukrainian territory; Ukrainian teen tells of Russian torture rooms; Kyiv and Moscow agree to restart grain exports

Sebastian Kalinowski, 15, died after weeks of abuse at the hands of his mother, Agnieszka Kalinowska, and her long-term partner, Andrzej Latoszewski

Sebastian Kalinowski, 15, died of an infection caused by ‘untreated complications of multiple rib fractures’ following weeks of cruel assaults