An award-winning Ukrainian journalist was stabbed and electrocuted before her death in Russian prison, weighing only 66 ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Twenty-six Ukrainian prisoners of war sat naked on a cold stone floor, their legs crossed, heads bowed and hands clasped behind their backs. The fresh arrivals at a jail in the ...

Torture treats the victim as a means to an end and not an end in themselves it treats the victim as a 'thing', not as a person with all the value that we associate with persons torturers often ...

The second reign of MILTON OBOTE as President of Uganda (1980-1985) is thought to have even exceeded the brutality of the Amin era. Estimates of civilians killed by Obote's forces in the Luwero ...

But his story is there, telling only a tiny part of the atrocities he experienced during the year he spent in the hands of his torturers. His testimony at the trial of IS jailers on Friday ...

Rome, February 29 - Egypt must do more to help Italy find the "gang of torturers" who killed Italian student Giulio Regeni, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Fabrizio Cicchitto said Monday.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw smoke rising from his cellmate's flesh as his torturers gave him electric shocks. Then it was Zahra's turn.

Former operatives of Chile's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) have been convicted earlier this week for crimes against humanity committed during Augusto Pinochet's military regime (1973 ...