The Latest Breaking News from Torture

It was a cold November day in 2015. Sukku Kunjam was working at his paddy field in Itavar village, nestled in the hills around Gangloor in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. But hours later, he ran to the jungle, allegedly apprehending police torture, as security forces stormed the village for a search operation.…

A judge has ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago

Commission of Inquiry accuses Israel and Palestinian groups of war crimes. Here’s a breakdown.

Adriana Orme was granted conditional bail after her barrister asked for her to have access to a Dutch interpreter

A 16-year-old girl, who was part of a group that tortured a younger girl for four hours in Queensland last year, walked free from court.

UN calls for investigation into torture and deaths of political prisoners in Belarus. Criticism of harsh conditions and crackdown on civil society by Lukas...

In Israel, human rights groups have filed a court case in a bid to close the Sdei Teiman military prison. Set up after the October 7 attacks in the heart of the Negev desert, it serves as a detention centre for prisoners from Gaza. Numerous eyewitness accounts speak of mistreatment…

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

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

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

Don McKellar discusses Robert Downey Jr, the Captain's epiphanies and closing the story in the brutal present tense