The Latest Breaking News from Torture

A UN committee excoriates the Government’s foot-dragging response over tortured children

After the Tories' disastrous by-election results in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, some Tory MPs may be looking at Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as a potential replacement for Boris Johnson...

Report says Maks Levin, 40 and soldier Oleksiy Chernyshov may have been tortured before being killed

South Africa’s history of discrimination, racial segregation and extralegal violence has influenced patterns of violence today. Colonial and apartheid governments ruled through violence and racial oppression. Whether through torture, corporal punishment or killings, black lives were deemed infinitely expendable.

Nicaraguan government operatives threatened Mario Rajib Flores Molina with torture and imprisonment. A new court ruling has revived his pursuit of asylum in the United States.

Three men, who were tortured and had been at risk of being put on UK flight to Rwanda, say being locked up is worsening trauma

They alleged that the police were threatening to demolish their huts and to torture them to evict them.

Retired geologist Jim Fitton, 66, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after picking up "ancient fragments" from a historic site in Eridu, Iraq

Five new lawsuits have been filed alleging abuse at Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri, where five staffers face criminal charges for assaulting students.

Rights panel responds to complaint by TDP leader

‘I feel like the British have been disloyal’