Ex-Leader Allegedly Ordered Torture
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Detained former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea allegedly ordered the murder of civilians when his group ruled Cambodia, a U.N-backed tribunal said.
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The ex-president of Peru is facing multiple-court proceedings. Already found guilty of abuse of power, he faces murder charges that could see him in prison for 30 years
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A Chinese dissident on trial for subversion and running an illegal business confessed under torture, his lawyer said.
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How ironic: defense attorneys for Augusto Pinochet characterized the arrest order against the former Chilean tyrant as an abuse of human rights, alleging that the 89-year-old man cannot defend himself because of poor health.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture prisoners, a leading human rights group said Tuesday, citing examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those who suffered under Saddam Hussein.
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NEW YORK, Oct 11  - Human Rights Watch listed Monday the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured.
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The former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, was put back under house arrest yesterday, a day after a Chilean prosecutor recommended his extradition to face charges of rights abuses and corruption. A judge ordered Fujimori's detention in a response to a request from Peru.
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A military judge on Saturday ordered the former commander of U.S. prisons in Iraq to testify at the trial of a soldier who says he was ordered to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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A former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp filed a lawsuit against the British government Wednesday, alleging the country's spy agencies knew he was being abused in U.S. custody yet allowed his continued interrogation.
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BRITISH soldier of fortune and former Scots Guard officer Simon Mann, the alleged leader of a failed African coup dâÃ©tat, has been specially targeted for systematic torture by guards in Zimbabweâs notorious Chikurubi Prison, according to two
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A former Philippine communist leader charged with ordering murders is due in court in The Hague.
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The U.N. war crimes tribunal on  Saturday ordered the immediate arrest and transfer of a former  Croatian police commander to the Hague after he violated the  terms of his provisional release by going on a hunting trip.
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A fter a prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are subjected to interrogation methods that are &quot;tantamount to torture.
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The Red Cross has accused President George Bush&#39;s administration of overseeing the intentional physical and psychological torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military judge yesterday ordered the former commander of US prisons in Iraq to testify at the trial of a soldier who says he was ordered to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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Detained family members of an accused torturer poisoned days before he was to appear in court appealed for their freedom Tuesday amid suspicions the man was killed to keep him from talking about dictatorship-era abuses.
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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face trial for corruption and human rights violations, including accusations that he ordered the death-squad killings of 25 people, Chile's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.