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Annie Yang, 56, was detained in three different camps between March 2005 and September 2006 in China before fleeing to the UK - she has shared her harrowing experience of psychological torture

Exclusive: Draft security bill would let spies and ministers enable killings and torture, warn charity and ex-minister

RAMGARH: A 19-year-old woman, married for barely six months in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, was brutally tortured for dowry by her inlaws and later killed by inserting a hot iron rod into her private parts, police and family members said on Thursday.

The 32-year-old woman was raped and assaulted inside a tempo in suburban Mumbai’s Sakinaka

Campaigners against flight say Kurdish Iraqis had endured ‘unnecessary torture in pursuit of headlines’

Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, UN experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press. The experts also accused seven Libyan armed groups of systematically using unlawful detention to punish perceived opponents,…

HARIDWAR: At a time when ageing has become a social challenge wherein many elderly people are exposed to emotional neglect and lack of physical and financial support because of their children, a ruling by the Haridwar sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) court has come in favour of those parents who experienced "torture"…

Yahya Jammeh has been accused of murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed in his more than 20-year rule.

In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon.…

Ralph Bulger wants Jon Venables to hear how the horrifying abduction, torture and murder of his son has shattered him and his family

Ralph Bulger, the father of murdered tot James Bulger, wants Jon Venables to hear how the terrifying abduction, torture and murder of his young son, aged two, in 1993 has shattered him and his family.