Trump can send deportees to South Sudan and other third-party countries, Supreme Court says Sonia Sotomayor blasts conservative justices for ‘rewarding lawlessness’ from the Trump administration The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2025
Supreme Court lets Trump restart deporting migrants to ‘third countries’ Dissenting justice warns court actions expose ‘thousands to the risk of torture or death’. Al Jazeera · Jun 23, 2025
Georgia dad learns fate after subjecting children to ‘extreme bootcamp’ punishments likened to ‘torture’ Carey Clark and Nora Rodgers withheld food from the children and inflicted physical injuries for years The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2025
Reporter's prison torture cost of political posturing Being a human pawn in geopolitical chess became Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei's fate while imprisoned by China for more than three years. AAP · Jun 17, 2025
German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon. Euronews · Jun 16, 2025
German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in prison for torture and war crimes in his homeland A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012 The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2025
German Court To Rule In Case Of Syrian 'Torture' Doctor A German court will rule Monday on the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity under former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime. International Business Times · Jun 16, 2025
Man remains behind bars over torture, abuse of baby A man is accused of the torture and physical abuse of a seven-week-old baby boy which appeared to be prolonged, in what police say is a deeply confronting case. AAP · Jun 15, 2025
UK spy agencies too slow to realise CIA was mistreating prisoners after 9/11, government admits Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025
International investigation reveals Wagner Group's secret prisons in Mali A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium – which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 – reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods… Radio France Internationale · Jun 12, 2025
Ukrainian held by Russia describes torture, sinister threats and Kafkaesque court process Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’ The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025
Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years… Newslaundry · Jun 11, 2025
Surviving Syria’s Prisons review – consistently shocking and unforgettably moving This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025
Woman jailed in Scotland for sharing 'monkey torture' videos online A WOMAN has been sentenced in connection with possessing and distributing material online related to the torture of monkeys in the first case of its… The National (Scotland) · Jun 10, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025 TV tonight: a horrifying look inside the prison walls of the Assad regime Confessions of ex-prison guards are woven with the story of two incarcerated brothers who recall torture so cruel it’s hard to fathom. Here’s what to watch this evening
We Got This Covered · Jun 9, 2025 Tragic end for missing Denver stylist Jax Gratton: Body found as chilling torture rumors collapse A cause of death has not yet been determined.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025 Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment
The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025 Family of teenage girl allegedly tortured and murdered by man she met on Grindr sues app ‘Without Grindr, we believe that Miranda would have never met this Steven Gress character, and she’d still be alive,’ the lawsuit states
The Independent UK · May 30, 2025 2nd suspect in Manhattan crypto kidnapping and torture case indicted A second man charged in the kidnapping and torture of an Italian man for his Bitcoin has been indicted
Evening Standard · May 30, 2025 Westminster Council appeals judge ruling that led to Leicester Square busker ban Musicians blasting out songs on a daily basis in the West End tourist hotspot was compared to ‘psychological torture’ by a judge
The Independent UK · May 30, 2025 Cop on NYC Mayor Adams’ security team eyed for links to ‘crypto king’ chainsaw torture: report One of detectives allegedly picked up victim from airport
The Independent UK · May 27, 2025 A second crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in a posh NYC apartment A second cryptocurrency investor has surrendered to police in the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man inside an upscale Manhattan apartment
The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025 Ex-aide to Georgia’s de facto leader at risk of torture, lawyers say Giorgi Bachiashvili, who fell out with billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, arrested and deported from UAE to Tbilisi
Al Jazeera · May 27, 2025 M23 accused of possible ‘war crimes’ in eastern DRC: Rights group Amnesty International says torture, killings and enforced disappearances have taken place in areas under rebel control.
The Guardian - US · May 24, 2025 Crypto investor in New York charged in kidnapping and torture plot John Woeltz, 37, being held without bail after allegedly beating, shocking and dangling man from five-story home