The Latest Breaking News from Torture

The basic plotline for the upcoming comedy film “80 for Brady,” coming to theaters this week, sounds like pure torture for any die-hard Atlanta Falcons fan: four 80-ish female Tom Brady acolytes travel to Houston to have a little fun in 2017 during that Super Bowl when the New England…

ADHRB says ‘invisible wounds’ are preventing political prisoners from resuming a normal life after arrest.

Two teenagers and 31-year-old man were subjected to torture including rape and beatings and denied fair trial, says group

A government agreement with developers was meant to solve the fire safety crisis in affected buildings – but the wrangling goes on

A man has been charged with torture and other offences after he was allegedly barricaded inside a bathroom with a woman for more than four hours.

The long-awaited anti-torture law is set to take effect next month. However, the Royal Thai Police is requesting a delay in its enforcement, citing a lack of readiness. The government must reject this request as it is a last-ditch effort to preserve the police's often violent interrogation tactics and culture…

Venezuela should release arbitrarily detained individuals and end torture, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Saturday at the end of a trip to the country.

No one should have to wait almost a year to find out if they have cancer, writes Record View.

A human rights watchdog called on Morocco on Friday not to extradite a Shi'ite Muslim to his homeland of Saudi Arabia, citing fears he could face torture and an unfair trial there.

Lawyers demand support from Australia for five victims of Khaled Sharrouf in test case for international law on torture survivors

The NGO Human Rights Watch has denounced murders, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances, and acts of torture linked to the clampdown against anti-governments demonstrations by the authorities in October.