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Carey Clark and Nora Rodgers withheld food from the children and inflicted physical injuries for years

Being a human pawn in geopolitical chess became Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei's fate while imprisoned by China for more than three years.

Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium – which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 – reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods…

Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime

A WOMAN has been sentenced in connection with possessing and distributing material online related to the torture of monkeys in the first case of its…

Confessions of ex-prison guards are woven with the story of two incarcerated brothers who recall torture so cruel it’s hard to fathom. Here’s what to watch this evening