Tag: torture

In January 2022, six Kazakh police officers were convicted of abusing power and torturing foreigners, including renowned jazz musician Vikram ...

Syrian civil defense workers uncovered the remains of 26 victims of the Assad government in mass graves in rural Damascus, ...

"Palestine Branch" in Damascus, Syria, known as Branch 235, was a notorious intelligence-run prison infamous for systematic torture by the ...

Germany's federal prosecutor has charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture, and war crimes for allegedly keeping two young Yazidi ...

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is alarmed by the increasing number of government critics who have gone missing, ...

Mehmet Erturk, after being released from a Syrian prison following 20 years of torture, returns home to Turkey unable to ...

Former Syrian military official Samir Ousman Sheikh was charged by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles with multiple counts ...

Two women, Adriana Orme and Holly Le Gresley, have been jailed for their involvement in a monkey torture ring, selling ...

A California man, Marcelino Olguin, was sentenced to seven years in prison for abusing foster children previously tortured by their ...

A coalition of 35 rights groups urges Thailand's prime minister to release a Vietnamese activist facing extradition on terrorism charges, ...