Moscow butcher Vladimir Putin is lording over a secret network of gulags where prisoners are brutally tortured in dozens of ...

Iranian authorities have used torture methods including sexual violence against imprisoned children as part of a crackdown on recent protests, according to rights group Amnesty International. “Iran’s ...

Humankind has created many wonderful things. Art, literature, the smallpox vaccine and pizza, to name a few. Unfortunately, our propensity for creation does not stop with a masterpiece like the “Mona ...

A government led by freedom fighters who helped to liberate the country more than 30 years ago is now overseeing a police force accused of staggering abuses. By Daneel Knoetze and John Eligon Daneel ...

Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights ...

This video examines a range of medieval torture devices and techniques used in historical justice systems. These methods were ...

A new report released Thursday by Amnesty International details routine and often grotesque instances of torture by police and military authorities in Nigeria, some of it coming as part of the ...

This piece originally appeared at MSNBC.com. The Senate report released earlier this week makes clear that the CIA tortured more men, and far more brutally, than anyone outside the intelligence ...

LOS ANGELES, California — A former Syrian government official was found guilty of torturing inmates at a major prison in Damascus and lying to U.S. immigration officials to obtain a green card and ...