&quot;Mercenaries&quot; accuse police of torture
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Two South African men accused of plotting to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea say they have been stripped, beaten and threatened with electrical shocks during six months detention in Zimbabwe.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has charged that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes coercion &quot;tantamount to torture
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There have been calls for terror suspects being held without charge in British prisons to be brought to trial, following criticisms from a UN anti-torture body.
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Seven police officers were charged with torture and other offenses Wednesday in the alleged beating of two Albanian immigrants that was recorded on a cell phone camera and posted on the Internet.
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Senior officer in charge of criminal investigation claims officials treated him as a political problem.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has claimed he was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by the United States Authorities.
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The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.
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Two police officers have been burned alive by a mob of furious residents after the officers were mistaken for child kidnappers. The crowd, angered by recent kidnappings at a school in Mexico Cityâs south
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A human rights group has accused government forces of aiding a militia in the kidnapping of children.
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A June 25 report is among dozens of documents made public Tuesday that allege brutal and sometimes illegal interrogation methods employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Members of a police unit that is facing allegations of torturing innocent men to obtain convictions went on trial Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by a man who spent 27 years in prison before he was released and later pardoned.
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Human Rights Watch says police in the Indonesian province of Papua are carrying out serious rights abuses.
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HAITIâS interim prime minister has accused ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of directing violence from exile. Gerard Latortue has also claimed that the South African government hosting Aristide is violating international law.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Russian police of beating and torturing suspects and criticized authorities for what it said were insufficient investigations into such allegations.
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By Katharine Houreld in Malabo and Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg. Eight men accused of plotting to overthrow Equatorial Guinea&#39;s government confronted their alleged torturers yesterday in a court in the capital, Malabo.
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Anti-terror police are questioning suspects over an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.