UK intelligence agencies aware of torture of terror suspects after 9/11 attacks: report

British Prime Minister Theresa May gave her first response after a damning report Thursday revealed British intelligence agencies were aware at an early stage of the torture and kidnap of terrorism suspects after 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US .

Prisons secrètes de la CIA: la Lituanie et la Roumanie condamnées

Après la Pologne en 2015, la Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme (CEDH) a condamné la Lituanie et la Roumanie pour leur participation au programme de prisons secrètes de la CIA, épinglées pour complicité et de multiples violations.

CIA nominee Gina Haspel was involved in torture program

President Donald Trump's new nominee for CIA director is a 30-year officer in the agency who was involved in secret torture programs for terrorism suspects.

Libye: arrestation d'une bande accusée de torture de migrants

Un groupe armé loyal au gouvernement d'union nationale a annoncé mercredi l'arrestation d'une bande accusée d'avoir enlevé et torturé des migrants soudanais, près de Syrte, à 450 km à l'est de la capitale Tripoli.

US Interrogates Detainees in Secret Yemen Prisons

Hundreds of Yemeni people have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme - including the "grill," in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire.

Mass graves of tortured civilians found in Aleppo : Russian MoD

Mass graves with dozens of bodies of civilians subjected to brutal torture have been discovered in Aleppo neighborhoods left by terror/militants, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.

US: Probe into war crimes in Afghanistan unwarranted. At least 88 people tortured

An International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of possible war crimes by US forces in Afghanistan is not "warranted or appropriate", the US state department said after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe.

International Criminal Court: US, CIA may be guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan

The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has announced that the US military and the CIA may be guilty of carrying out war crimes in Afghanistan.

Amnesty documents war crimes committed by armed groups in Idleb and Aleppo

Amnesty International documented in new briefing that the armed groups operating in Aleppo, Idleb and surrounding areas in the north of Syria have carried out a “chilling” wave of torture, abductions and summary killings.

OSCE admits for consideration anti-Russian draft resolution on Crimea

The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has admitted for consideration at the assembly’s session underway in Tbilisi an anti-Russian draft resolution on Crimea, Nikolai Kovalev, a member of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house and head of the Russian delegation, said on Sunday.

Declassified Malvinas documents reveal true horror of 1982 war

Recently declassified Argentine military documents pertaining to the Malvinas War have shed new light on the torture suffered by Argentine soldiers during the conflict and the steps taken by authorities to ensure that the public did not find out about the abhorent practices.

Eastern Ukraine UN report: "Persistent and grave" human rights violations

UN, 1 June 2015 – Serious human rights violations and abuses persist in eastern Ukraine, including shelling, executions, arbitrary and illegal detentions, torture, ill-treatment, human trafficking and the lack of justice and accountability, as well as deprivation of economic and social rights, deeply affecting the 5 million people living in the conflict-affected areas, a new United Nations report said today.