Torture - Human Rights Watch
Jul 31, 2025 · The prohibition against torture is a bedrock principle of international law. Torture, as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, is banned at all times, in all places, including in …
Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured
Jun 24, 2025 · In Guinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traoré, a prominent lawyer and former bar association …
Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured - Human Rights …
Aug 26, 2024 · Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since hostilities began in October 2023, deported them to detention facilities in Israel, and …
Sudan: Fighters Rape Women and Girls, Hold Sex Slaves
Dec 16, 2024 · Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state …
The Legal Prohibition Against Torture | Human Rights Watch
Mar 11, 2003 · Given that people being tortured will say anything to stop the pain, the information yielded from torture is often false or of dubious reliability.
Russian Torture - Human Rights Watch
May 6, 2025 · The death of Viktoriia Roshchyna, the 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, is as straightforward as it is horrific. Russia disappeared her. Russia tortured her. Russia then …
Witness: Beaten, Shocked, Tortured - Human Rights Watch
Mar 23, 2020 · Children as young as 12 have been tortured in Egypt’s prisons. Horrific accounts of what happened to them include being suspended from ceilings until their shoulders …
Torture, Death of a Ukrainian Journalist in Russian Custody
May 5, 2025 · Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist, disappeared in the Russia-occupied part of the Zaporizka region of Ukraine in August 2023. A year later, she …
“You Have Arrived in Hell”: Torture and Other Abuses Against ...
Nov 12, 2025 · The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the …
Russian Forces Tortured Detainees in Izium, Ukraine
(Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the Kharkiv region of ...