All news on the topic: Torture

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal proved that Russia’s inhumane treatment and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not “sporadic irregularities” but a consistent policy of the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), carried out on the orders from the very top.

Members of a migrant trafficking group who were arrested confess to killing migrants and burying them in the desert.

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

The new Syrian authorities have arrested military judge Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who issued death sentences to prisoners of the Sednaya prison complex.

Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced

Image shows one of five men accused by US government of plotting 9/11 attacks, who remains in custody without a criminal conviction

Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.

Timothy Ferguson was subjected to horrific torture from mum Shanda Vander Ark that included being forced to eat bread doused in hot sauce and lay in ice-cold baths for hours at a time. His brother Paul Ferguson begged for 'mercy and fairness' before being handed a long sentence

Alan Lawson, 36, was discovered with serious injuries after suffering at the hands of a torturer last weekend who stabbed him while he was chained to a radiator in Largs, Scotland

Two teenage girls claim they were kept in isolation cells during their entire stay at a Kentucky detention centre and the song Baby Shark was played in Spanish on repeat

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.

Stephen Dixon, 51, Wayne Butler, 37, pulled out four of the victim's teeth with a door hinge and carved his then girlfriend's name Molly on his forehead with a knife, a court heard

Maya Chavez left the10-year-old with injuries which included a bone sticking out of an unhealed sore and bruises from head to toe. A nurse told Orange County District Attorney's office it was the worst case of trauma and suspected child abuse she had ever seen

A Turkish radio DJ was tortured and killed, then dumped in nearby woodland in a horror case. According to friends, the victim had been acting strangely since he return from holiday in Turkey in summer 2022

A man accused of helping to organise the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been deemed unfit to stand trial after CIA 'torture.' Ramzi bin al-Shibh is being held at Guantanamo Bay

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

WARNING, CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES: Abu Zubaydah, 52, was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and a landmark new report shows the brutal torture he was subject to

The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic

A 13-year-old girl is alleged to have been tortured by three other teenage girls in a sick trap masked as a fake party earlier this month. The girl's mum alleges her daughter was left looking like "her head was going to explode"

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

The Brazen Bull, a hollowed out bronze bovine sculpture, was created in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC by a man called Perilaus, who gifted it to a cruel tyrant called Phalaris

Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'

Friday marks one year since tyrant Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops cross the border into Ukraine in one of the 21st century's most destructive and vicious military invasions