During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and perform executions. Some methods were considerably crueler than others — these 10 being ...

A former Syrian regime official who oversaw brutal torture of prisoners as warden of a Damascus prison under the dictatorship of former President Bashar al-Assad has been condemned in the U.S. After ...

This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site. Since its entry into Raqqa, the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has attempted to spread fear into the hearts of civilians by kidnapping ...

Maxim Grigoriev, the chairman of the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, emphasized that over 200 individuals, recently exchanged as prisoners, provided statements ...

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Seeing some images of olden times may seem somewhat cartoonish. Because these events happened a long time ago, they can appear to be overly simplified and unrealistic. However, what isn’t amusing at ...

Governments around the world continue to violate religious freedom and breach international law by engaging in torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, according to a report by the ...

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 ...

DENVER — A former member of the military in Gambia was convicted on Tuesday of charges that he tortured people suspected of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country's longtime ...