In his “ Discourse on Colonialism ,” Martinique politician and writer Aimé Césaire wrote about the boomerang effect: the way ...

Pepe Mujica spent 13 years in military dungeons, much of it in solitary confinement. Far from demanding revenge, he advocates ...

The five most cruel torturers of the Pinochet dictatorship serve sentences in a luxurious prison at the foot of the Andes. The place has a swimming pool, gardens and aviaries, and prisoners are ...

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

While there can be only one ruler sitting in Westeros' Iron Throne, many could claim the role of most hated Game of Thrones character.

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.

It was one of the seeds for Paiva's book and, later, the film. “People were asking for reparations for families of missing politicians, they sued my father’s torturers,” he said. “The military showed ...

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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 ...

When what it means to be a loyal American was twisted and tortured until in the minds of many it fit only a narrow elucidation crafted by, of course, the twisted torturers. When did protesting ...

The University of Cambridge has been named as one of 12 UK universities that has been involved in teaching security courses to students in countries where torture is widespread. According to a report ...

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