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Torture

  • A prison entrance

    Oklahoma prison criticized for allegedly incarcerating people in squalid underground cells with no natural light

    Incarcerated people allege they are forced to endure vermin-infested cells and are subjected to beatings and rape
  • Composite of handwritten letters cut out in shape of person in prison

    ‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs

    Exclusive: letters from inside the underground H Unit of Oklahoma state penitentiary allege beatings, vermin, degrading punishment and in many cases no access to a most basic necessity – natural light
  • A silhouetted woman's figure sits by a window looking out at a street with buildings and greenery

    Rights and freedom
    Tortured, humiliated and killed: the women who disappear into Myanmar’s prisons

    The military junta has detained thousands of political prisoners since the 2021 coup, and a pattern of gender-based abuses is becoming clear

May 2026

  • A large group of people kneeling in rows with their heads bowed to the ground

    Flotilla video: Ben-Gvir’s template of televised abuse was honed on Palestinians

    Targeting of foreign activists drew global outrage from governments that have not acted on extreme violence against Palestinian detainees
  • Two clenched fists bound together with frayed rope against a blurred background

    UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims

    Council of Europe members plan to change interpretation of rights laws to make it easier to deport people
  • A young Somali woman smiles, standing in a village street.

    Women in prison
    Woman jailed in Somalia for peaceful protest ‘stripped, kicked and beaten’

    In an exclusive interview from prison, Sadia Moalim Ali, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, tells of her treatment after being arrested for demonstrating against the government

April 2026

  • View of Sydney harbour from plane, NSW Australia

    double quotation markAfter 15 years, I’m leaving Trump’s America and coming home to Australia. It feels like an escape

    Simon Adams
    I no longer wish to live in a country where performative cruelty has become the guiding principle of government

February 2026

  • Single storey buildings behind barbed-wire gate/fence

    Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges

    Israeli prison service and IDF reject allegations after research by Committee to Protect Journalists

January 2026

  • Sami al-Saei

    ‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail

  • People in orange life jackets disembark from a boat

    UK’s ‘one in, one out’ scheme has failed to protect torture survivors, says charity

  • Nasrin Parvaz

    double quotation markI know the terrible cost of speaking out in Iran – and I beg the world to stand with those speaking out now

    Nasrin Parvaz
  • The Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba

    UK ‘pays substantial sum’ to tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee

November 2025

  • Three people in overalls and medical masks lift a white body-bag into a vehicle

    Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report

    Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
  • two men in suits sit

    ‘Godfather of the Trump presidency’: the direct through-line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump

    A proponent of the unitary executive theory, Cheney helped expand the vast presidential powers Trump enjoys today
  • Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi

    UN expert urged to investigate Lebanon over alleged torture of Egyptian-Turkish poet

    Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments

October 2025

  • Pained-looking men and women stand holding large pictures of men with one woman holding a placard in Arabic

    Rights and freedom
    double quotation markThe families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it

    Wafa Mustafa
    Over 160,000 people, including my father, were abducted by the Assad regime. The country’s new commission for the missing must be inclusive and independent to restore our trust

September 2025

  • a man looking left

    After years living quietly in Florida, Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ must face accusations in court

  • Adam Bessa as Hamid in Ghost Trail (Les Fantomes), directed by Jonathan Millet.

    ‘They told me what their bodies had lived through’: how Syrian vigilantes inspired new thriller Ghost Trail

  • Mazyar Ebrahimi in Where God Is Not

    Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse

  • Aerial view of a sprawling compound on a lush plain by a large river with prison-like accommodation blocks, flats, offices and hangars surrounded by a perimeter fence

    Rights and freedom
    Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

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