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Rights groups and UN agencies have documented systematic abuse in Libya including torture, rape and extortion.

Exclusive: The UN special rapporteur on torture has warned the British government is ‘very likely’ breaching IPP prisoners’ human rights

Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, said Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men are now being forcibly conscripted to fight for both the junta and the rebels. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh

Rome’s Samifo Centre helps asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced torture, persecution or violence

Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife were the victims of a kidnap for ransom plot last week, but they were rescued by French authorities after the kidnappers mutilated one of the crypto executive's fingers.

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11…

Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain.

Those who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive states give a rare glimpse into their horrific ordeal in the country’s vast gulag system