Social control” campaigns aimed at minority groups have a long history in Colombia, with local vigilantes dealing death and ...

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention ...

Criminal complaints have been filed against two men in an investigation into videos of a child being bound with duct tape and repeatedly scared. Jalil Wilson, 27, and Atzavesta Raymon Williams, 25, ...

A Patterson woman accused of attacking her girlfriend in Patterson is now facing a murder charge with a special circumstance ...

That fall, Duplessie began visiting a new friend, John Woeltz, at his home in Kentucky. The 150-acre property abutted the ...

An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered ...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture ...

McCracken County Sheriff’s Deputies say a man and woman face animal torture charges after they left their dog in a hot car ...

A chilling simulation of the Brazen Bull torture device - which inspired a scene in Saw 3D - has left people horrified.

Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects. These are just some of the abuses ...