All news on the topic: Torture

Three fatalities in Tunisian prisons within one week in July have alarmed rights groups about prison conditions and alleged mistreatment, leading to urgent appeals for government investigations.

Deep in the Russian heartland, hundreds of kilometers from home, Ukrainian prisoners of war were tormented by a sadistic doctor. Reporters set out to unmask him.

Authorities in Italy, Spain, and Albania have arrested 28 suspected members of a drug trafficking network linked to the ’Ndrangheta, Europol announced on Tuesday.

In early May in Russia, another journalist was sentenced — Alexander Gusov, the owner of the newspaper "Vek" and the Telegram channel "Novy Vek," received a five-year sentence in a high-security colony on charges of extortion.

A woman tortured and made to drink urine by a cruel couple branded them ’monsters’ who ’destroyed my life overnight’.

A former headteacher and Scottish millionaire, who recorded himself abusing vulnerable women at his secluded Highland lodge, has been prohibited from leaving Scotland.

Senior doctors allege they endured months of physical abuse, while the UN urges the release of those still detained.

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal proved that Russia’s inhumane treatment and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not “sporadic irregularities” but a consistent policy of the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), carried out on the orders from the very top.

Members of a migrant trafficking group who were arrested confess to killing migrants and burying them in the desert.

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

The new Syrian authorities have arrested military judge Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who issued death sentences to prisoners of the Sednaya prison complex.

Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced

Image shows one of five men accused by US government of plotting 9/11 attacks, who remains in custody without a criminal conviction

Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.

Timothy Ferguson was subjected to horrific torture from mum Shanda Vander Ark that included being forced to eat bread doused in hot sauce and lay in ice-cold baths for hours at a time. His brother Paul Ferguson begged for 'mercy and fairness' before being handed a long sentence

Alan Lawson, 36, was discovered with serious injuries after suffering at the hands of a torturer last weekend who stabbed him while he was chained to a radiator in Largs, Scotland

Two teenage girls claim they were kept in isolation cells during their entire stay at a Kentucky detention centre and the song Baby Shark was played in Spanish on repeat

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.

Stephen Dixon, 51, Wayne Butler, 37, pulled out four of the victim's teeth with a door hinge and carved his then girlfriend's name Molly on his forehead with a knife, a court heard

Maya Chavez left the10-year-old with injuries which included a bone sticking out of an unhealed sore and bruises from head to toe. A nurse told Orange County District Attorney's office it was the worst case of trauma and suspected child abuse she had ever seen

A Turkish radio DJ was tortured and killed, then dumped in nearby woodland in a horror case. According to friends, the victim had been acting strangely since he return from holiday in Turkey in summer 2022

A man accused of helping to organise the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been deemed unfit to stand trial after CIA 'torture.' Ramzi bin al-Shibh is being held at Guantanamo Bay