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Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

WARNING, CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES: Abu Zubaydah, 52, was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and a landmark new report shows the brutal torture he was subject to

The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic

A 13-year-old girl is alleged to have been tortured by three other teenage girls in a sick trap masked as a fake party earlier this month. The girl's mum alleges her daughter was left looking like "her head was going to explode"

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

The Brazen Bull, a hollowed out bronze bovine sculpture, was created in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC by a man called Perilaus, who gifted it to a cruel tyrant called Phalaris

Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'

Friday marks one year since tyrant Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops cross the border into Ukraine in one of the 21st century's most destructive and vicious military invasions

The body of Shakira Spencer was found decomposed in her child's bedroom in her flat and it is alleged she was beaten and tortured - at a hearing at the Old Bailey in London today, Lisa Richardson denied murder and preventing a lawful burial

Police have ordered an around-the-clock search for Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, after a woman was found unconscious, bound and close to death in Grants Pass, Oregon, this week

Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September