&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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Police sent to restore order on Palm Island off the north Queensland coast have been criticised by some residents for using heavy-handed tactics.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US military of using tactics &quot;tantamount to torture&quot; on prisoners at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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France&#39;s interior minister called it &quot;scandalous.&quot; Le Figaro called it ridiculous. But whatever you choose to call it, on Monday, four days after the police at Roissy-Charles
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There are fresh allegations that prisoners under US custody in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered serious physical abuse from their interrogators.
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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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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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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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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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Pentagon may not have acted on FBI complaints about incidents, including a interrogator grabbing a detainee&#39;s genitals. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - FBI agents witnessed &quot;highly aggressive&quot; interrogations and mistreatment
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A confidential report states that the U.S. military has used psychological and sometimes physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on prisoners.
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Cuban officials called a veteran human rights activist a "mercenary" for the United States on Monday, accusing him of exaggerating the number of political prisoners held on the island to make money and destabilize the communist system.
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Equatorial Guinea has told a court he and his comrades had been chained like animals and tortured into confessing. and hand-cuffs to plead their innocence on Thursday.
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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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A British detainee claims he was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay.
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French, US and German rights groups said Friday they had filed suit for "torture" against ex-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, currently in Paris, for his role in the Iraq war and the US "war on terror".
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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