Torture

The violence was "a reminder of the Taliban's past record and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring," said the head of Amnesty International.

The GOP congresswoman argued it is "wrong" to keep the Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol in prison.

Mehul Choksi is wanted by Indian authorities over his alleged part in a $1.8 billion bank fraud case.

Indian authorities want diamond magnate Mehul Choksi for his alleged role in a $1.8 billion bank fraud case.

Navalny said he was wakened by guards every hour of the night during his stay at the penal colony so they could film him and report his presence at the prison to officially verify his location.

"We do not know where he is and in what condition," Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Monday.

According to court documents and media records, the injuries allegedly inflicted included broken teeth, bloodied toes, cut tails, and broken bones.

Bhad Bhabie alleged that she and other teens were subject to traumatizing experiences, including sleep deprivation, sexual abuse and witnessing a murder, while at the ranch promoted by Dr. Phil.

The man who survived his attack said he woke up in an icy bath as the attacker used a knife on him.

Chance Seneca has been charged over the attack during which Holden White awoke in a bathtub filled with blood and water.

In theory, a prosecutor in Texas could bring charges against a Trump official on behalf of a separated child or parents. It's "a high threshold" but not impossible, said a human-rights expert.

I spent 14 years in Guantanamo. President Obama promised to close the camp, but his administration fought tooth and nail against my release. Will President Biden do the right thing?

Vanessa Tijerina, 42, posted a video on Facebook alleging that a fourth person is still "at large" after three people were arrested.

The victim, a man aged in his 30s, begged for mercy as the teens relentlessly beat him with a wrench and an industrial mixer.

"They don't treat us like immigrants. They treat us like prisoners," one accuser said in a recent report. "I don't know why they force us to go back to a country that is not stable right now. People die every day."

Detectives say the two children, aged 10 and 11, were also starved and abused at their Ohio home.

He told detectives in Inkster, Michigan, that his former friends used a lighter to burn his nipples and forced him to chew a towel soaked in dog urine.

The Kingdom garnered praise for announcing the decree—but it was never published, and it's unclear whether or not it even applies to the thirteen currently on death row for offenses allegedly committed when they were children.

Poland, Lithuania and Romania hosted "black sites" during the War on Terror—but get to watch the hearings on torture at Guantánamo from afar, unscathed, unaccountable and all but unmentionable in the courtroom.

I am a nobody: a taxi driver from Karachi held without charges in Guantanamo Bay, tortured, forever separated from my son. But I hope the two psychologists responsible for what was inflicted on me will stop by my cell. I'll be waiting.

James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen designed the "enhanced interrogration" program used against detainees during the initial stages of the War on Terror.

"I agree with him that terrorists are bad guys— as are the people who conducted barbaric and ineffective acts of torture in the name of Mr. Pompeo's misguided notion of 'Patriotism,'" Scott Z. Burns said in a statement.

In the lead-up to a new movie dramatizing the Senate Torture Report's creation, the report's primary author speaks out on the ongoing dangers of CIA abuses.

"What we are seeing are the humanitarian consequences of the tightening of migration policies," said MSF Mexico General Coordinator Sergio Martín.

16 LGBT activists in Uganda were taken into custody for their own protection only to be arrested and subjected to forced anal examinations.

Hong Kong has experienced its 16th consecutive weekend of protests as activists seek to force the Beijing-backed government to offer further democratic concessions.

More than 1,300 protesters have been arrested since the unrest began, and a new report has shed light on accusations of cruel and unusual punishment of detainees by police.

Donald Eugene Hardyman Jr., 56, is accused of attacking an 11-year-old boy.

Kim Dong Chul was one of three American citizens released from North Korean prisons and returned to the U.S. in 2018.

The nation built on freedom to dissent is trying to break a dissident who rebelled in the name of freedom.