Tag: Torture and the United States

Rights activists on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court to probe years of killings and disappearances, as well as torture ...

Chinese police and prosecutors are banned from using torture to obtain evidence under rules released Tuesday, in the latest attempt ...

North Korea on Friday accused the US of waging a "smear campaign" over the death of a student who was ...

Democrats on Friday accused a powerful Republican senator of seeking to erase the history of the CIA's torture program in ...

A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in ...

Thirteen men accused of involvement in the murder of high-ranking police officer Andrew Kaweesi and two aides appeared in court ...

A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for subjecting her three-year-old nephew to severe beatings, denying him food for days and ...

One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned ...

The pair, who investigators say were part of the radical Islamist scene in the central Germany city of Göttingen, have ...

Police in Tamale have confirmed the arrest of one of five suspects in connection with the torture of a 15-year ...

Thailand's army said Tuesday it would drop a defamation case against three human rights workers who alleged that troops tortured ...

There was no immediate response from the U. S. delegation to the 47-member state forum in Geneva. A U. N. ...

The UN on Friday warned that a range of serious abuses, including torture, appear to remain widespread in Sri Lanka ...

A 15-year old Junior High School (JHS) pupil of one of the basic schools within the Tamale Metropolis was subjected ...

Seven Syrian torture survivors, two lawyers and a human rights group have filed a criminal complaint in Germany against secret ...

Photos showing hundreds of prisoners in a Philippine jail sitting naked while being searched for contraband have triggered accusations of ...

Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video ...

More people are adding their voices to condemn brutality meted out to a Nigerian woman who was stripped naked and ...

A 28-year-old man has been arrested by the Sofoline police in the Ashanti Region for allegedly subjecting his nine-year-old nephew ...

The funeral has been taking place in the Colombian capital, Bogota, of a seven-year-old girl from a poor family who ...