Tag: torture

Cameroon has detained eight soldiers after a video emerged over the weekend showing them in uniform torturing a victim with a machete until he...

Some families say it is better to know and mourn. Others say finally learning what happened is worse than dying themselves. Hundreds of victims of...

Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine accused police of torturing and blinding an ally, shortly before the lawmaker, detained over coronavirus social distancing rules,...

The US and other Western countries urged Egypt to investigate alleged killings and torture by security forces and release journalists and others arrested for...

Italian prosecutors ordered the arrest of three people suspected of torturing migrants in a Libyan detention centre. The men, a 22-year-old Guinean and two...

The UN human rights office voiced concern about trials that saw 15 people executed in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations...

UN investigators identified perpetrators of pervasive rape and killings and torture in secret safe houses in South Sudan and believe oil revenues drive much...

Dozens of Africans claim they were sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be...

A lawsuit has been filed in France against Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar alleging torture and barbarism, the plaintiff's French lawyer, Rachel...

Armed groups execute and torture civilians in Libya in almost complete impunity seven years after the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the...

When 52 West African migrants sneaked into Gambia from Senegal on July 21, 2005, they expected to meet a boat to ferry...

The US military has opened an inquiry into allegations of torture and murder of suspected Boko Haram militants at a Cameroonian army...

Two months ago, a private contractor working for the United States (US) military posted a photograph on Facebook. It was taken at...

Cameroonian forces have been torturing suspects in their campaign against Islamist group Boko Haram, with much of the torture happening at a...

British police arrested a woman in London on suspicion of torture during the civil war in Liberia more than 25 years ago. The...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ordered his security chiefs to stop torture by their personnel after media images of a detained politician with...

Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body, highlight escalating brutality...

In his quest to reach Europe, 22-year old Gambian Mafu Hydara spent six days with little food or water crossing the Sahara...

Dozens of unidentified bodies have been found across Burundi and incidents of torture by security forces and night raids on opposition homes...

Tunisian security forces are using methods in their war against Islamist militants associated with overthrown leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, including...

Egyptian police raided and shut down a prominent local organisation that documents alleged human rights abuses and treats torture victims, the group's...

The bodies of 10 men apparently tortured and shot dead have been found in a suburb of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi,...

Turkey has effectively written a "blank cheque" to security services to torture people detained after a failed military coup attempt, a U.S.-based...

Burundi's government banned three UN investigators from its territory on Monday, deepening a row between the east African country and the international...

Burundi's government has dismissed a UN decision to set up a commission of inquiry to identify perpetrators of killings and torture, saying...

The top UN human rights forum agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to identify perpetrators of killings and torture in...

Amnesty International accused a Nigerian police unit on Wednesday of torturing suspects and demanding bribes to free them - allegations dismissed by...

Torture is on the rise against government critics detained in Burundi and security forces are using sexual violence against women during protests...

Four Burundian lawyers who gave information to the United Nations about alleged torture in their central African country face disbarment as retribution...

Egyptian security agents have abducted and tortured "at least several hundred people", some as young as 14, in an unprecedented spike in...

CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sept. 11 attacks and...

The United States on Wednesday faced criticism from the United Nations as well as governments that Washington often reprimands for human rights...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) really doesn't want to investigate torture in Zimbabwe. When the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and...

On 30 October 2014, the Constitutional Court of South Africa handed down its judgment in a landmark case for international criminal justice. The...

Torture is so common in Nigeria's police force that many police stations have a designated officer to carry out atrocities such as...

Morocco has filed a lawsuit in France against activists who are suing the head of its domestic intelligence service over torture allegations,...

Cabinet has approved the Prevention and Combatting of Torture Bill, after it was submitted in March. It has been sent to the...

The United Nations voiced fresh alarm at consistent reports of executions and torture of civilians including children in Syria as well as...

Prime Minister David Cameron will announce soon he is setting up an inquiry into allegations British security services were complicit in torture...