All news on the topic: Torture

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Assad’s torture victims speak out as Syrian torture chamber horrors are finally exposed
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
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Revealed: First picture of War on Terror detainee in CIA black site
Image shows one of five men accused by US government of plotting 9/11 attacks, who remains in custody without a criminal conviction
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A media investigation revealed that special school pupils were allegedly "tortured" in the sedation rooms
Staff were filmed hitting, kicking and leaving special school pupils in their own urine, the BBC has found.
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Cambridge student tortured to death with severe burns and every finger broken in spy ’mistake’
A trial is currently underway in Rome to determine the guilt of Egyptian intelligence officers accused of torturing Giulio Regeni, 28, to death by burning his body and beating him relentlessly with sticks
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Man who helped mum torture disabled brother to death begs mercy at sentencing
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
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Maniac who launched attack on man that killed him was on 'crack bender'
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
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'Baby Shark' song playing on loop used to 'torture teen' at detention centre
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
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Two men guilty of killing DJ who was tortured as partner heard screams
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.
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Naked man tied up and tortured in horrific scenes likened to a 'Tarantino film'
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
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Girl tells evil stepmum 'hope you die' after neck broken in series of cruel acts
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
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Radio DJ killed and tortured with naked body dumped in woodlands, court hears
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
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9/11 suspect deemed unfit to stand trial after Guantanamo Bay 'torture'
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
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Inside the brutal El Salvador jail packed with 67,000 prisoners where 153 died
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
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Guantanamo prisoner's drawings expose brutal torture in CIA’s post-9/11 program
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
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Man cries out in agony as he is nailed to cross in real Good Friday crucifixion
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
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Teen, 13, 'tortured for five hours by girls who lured her with fake party trap'
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"
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Ukraine 'traitor' who headed Putin's 'torture jail' killed in car bomb explosion
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
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Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horror war crimes
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
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Inventor of 'the most painful torture device' in history was its first victim
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
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Torture chambers 'funded by Putin’s credit card' to destroy Ukraine's identity
Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'
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5 times Russia broke international law from grim torture to lung-busting bomb
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
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Mum believed beaten and tortured before being found decomposed in child's bed
The body of Shakira Spencer was found decomposed in her child's bedroom in her flat and it is alleged she was beaten and tortured - at a hearing at the Old Bailey in London today, Lisa Richardson denied murder and preventing a lawful burial
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Police warn torture suspect could be using dating apps to find new victims
Police have ordered an around-the-clock search for Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, after a woman was found unconscious, bound and close to death in Grants Pass, Oregon, this week
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Faces of condemned as Iranian freedom protests face execution or death
Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September