All news on the topic: Torture

Ethiopian authorities have arrested 17 key operatives behind a brutal human trafficking syndicate that trapped tens of thousands of migrants in Yemen, systematically filming their torture to extort millions from terrified families.

A masked “honour” gang who kidnapped a man from his front door before tying him to a chair and torturing him have been jailed.

Dozens of Ukrainians returning from Russian captivity accused their prison doctor of subjecting them to systematic sexualized and psychological torture and refusing treatment for acute diseases. Reporters set out to find him.

Carol was thrilled two years ago when she heard that, after several interviews, she had landed an office job in Thailand working as a typist.

A dad-of-two was kidnapped, tortured and set on fire after losing £1million-worth of cigarettes in a gang row, a court has heard.

Inside a stone farmhouse south-west of Paris, the walls are lined with Khaled Alkhani’s oil paintings: dark, blurred figures with closed eyes or faces hidden beneath heavy black marks. Each canvas is part of his attempt to process the violence that shattered his family in Syria four decades ago.

Amnesty International’s recent report highlights that Cambodia’s widely publicized crackdown on online scam operations largely left the majority of known compounds unaddressed and failed to rescue people trapped in forced labor, torture, and slavery.

Ukrainian war-crimes investigator Roksolana Makar navigated icy roads and the danger of drone attacks to interview a woman in the town of Izium who alleged she was tortured by Russian forces.

A Singaporean Herbalife distributor who tortured his downline to death has been sentenced to 14 years and 11 months in prison.

In a landmark case that horrified France, Gisele Pelicot’s husband was in 2024 sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting strangers to sexually abuse her while drugged unconscious in their home. Dozens of the men who raped her were also jailed.

Writing by Narges Mohammadi, who has been arrested 14 times for her activism, offers a disturbing insight into her treatment.

A paranoid cannabis user who tortured his vulnerable 93-year-old friend over a period of more than 24 hours has been found guilty of his murder.

A new investigation by Amnesty International reveals that a dozen casinos in Cambodia are directly connected to scamming compounds.

In the Mediterranean port city of Marseille three youths aged 15 to 17 were killed in 2025 in cases linked to drug trafficking.

Iranian authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in what Human Rights Watch described on Tuesday as a “brutal campaign” of mass, arbitrary, and violent detentions aimed at terrorizing the population since late December.

The investigative projects Schemes and Systema published an investigation based on the archived personal correspondence of Russian military officer Roman Demurchiev.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of watching a young girl, aged between six and eight years old, being subjected to electric shock torture.

Football super agent Jonathan Barnett is being investigated by cops over claims he raped and tortured a “sex slave”, court documents show.

Israel is detaining dozens of Palestinians from Gaza in an underground prison where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food, and are prohibited from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

Russian commanders are executing or deliberately sending to their deaths soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, according to a new investigation by the independent outlet Verstka, which paints a bleak picture of internal violence within the Russian army.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Ilya Sorokin, a prison doctor exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL’s “Schemes” program in July as having systematically humiliated, tortured, and denied medical assistance to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The case sent shockwaves through France and reignited a heated debate over the country’s immigration policies.

South Korea summoned the Cambodian envoy to express concern after a Korean college student was kidnapped and brutally tortured to death in a case that threatened to spark a diplomatic row between the two countries.

A British teenager missing in Thailand is feared to have been pulled into a scam operation run by Chinese gangs.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.