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Matt Ludford is cycling around 600 miles over 12 days between five Freedom From Torture centres.

Lawyers for an opposition party councilor in Zimbabwe say he and a relative were abducted, beaten and whipped by unknown men amid a post-election crackdown on criticism of recently reelected President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party

In a change to the online safety bill, tech firms will have to proactively prevent material that facilitates animal torture from being posted

The heads of Crown Law and the Ministry of Justice can’t work out between them whether the abuse of children at the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital was torture. After 50 years the Government still refuses to say that what happened at Lake Alice was torture.

Matthew Hedges was detained in Abu Dhabi between May and November 2018, after being accused of working for MI6.

Department’s top official acknowledges profound impact UAE detention had on British academic

The Orissa High Court has expressed deep concerns over continuation of ragging activities on campuses of Odisha’s medical colleges despite the Medical Council of India (Prevention and Prohibition of Ragging in Medical Colleges/Institutions) Regulations, 2009) declaring ragging a punishable offence.

Father of Mansoor, Aboobacker, moves Kerala HC seeking probe into alleged police torture of son. He claims four arrested, including Mansoor, were physically and mentally tortured by jail officials.

‘Deeply flawed’ imprisonment for public protection scheme still causing severe distress, says rapporteur