The Russian military has been torturing its own soldiers at bases as they prepared to fight in Ukraine, it has been claimed. Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council deputy chairman and former Russian President, visited two training grounds in Prudboy, Volgograd Oblast and
A grandmother is suing police in the United States, claiming that she was “sexually humiliated” by officers at a facility her lawsuit describes as a “torture warehouse”. The lawsuit claims the warehouse was allegedly dubbed the ‘The Brave Cave’ and was used
A Spanish judge heard evidence Friday of alleged torture during the rule of the country’s late dictator Francisco Franco, in what rights groups said was the first case of its kind to be accepted for legal review. The hearing at a Madrid
A German man has been arrested after his wife was discovered naked in a “torture room” with a shaved head and broken legs and fingers. The 55-year-old is accused of holding his 53-year-old wife captive in a flat since 2011, when she
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions, a U.N. independent investigator on human rights said in a report circulated Monday. Mohamed Babiker said
Ukraine’s counter-offensive won another victory this week after killing a hated Russian commander. Artur Bogachenko, who was in charge of Russia’s gruesome ‘Ghost’ Brigade, was killed in action, according to the Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anatoly Shtefan. News of
Netherlands and Canada have collaborated to submit a joint complaint to the highest judicial body of the United Nations against Syria. Both countries assert that Syria has engaged in numerous breaches of international law and seek provisional measures from the International Court
A New York cop turned drug dealer who once shared a cell with high-profile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has been convicted of murdering four people. Nicholas Tartaglione was found guilty Thursday of committing what prosecutors have described as “gangland-style” killings in 2016. US Attorney for the
U.N. human rights monitors have documented dozens of summary killings of Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war, as well as other possible war crimes such as the use of torture, human shields and other abuses against POWs since Russia invaded its neighbor,
A British prisoner dubbed the “Saw Killer” has admitted to attempting to murder a guard with a shank. Matthew Tinling, 35, who is serving dual sentences for the vicious murder of an ex-soldier and knife attack on a fellow inmate, now faces