torture

A young Alabama mother was allegedly abducted before being tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed by a group of eight suspects in a horrific attack recorded by the perpetrators.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) published a report on Wednesday that found “graphic torture” is “standard practice” during police interrogations in China, including abuses so severe that one victim was rendered comatose and died.

Former hostage Mia Shem, 21, says that Hamas forced her to endure surgery performed by a veterinarian and without anesthetic after she was taken to Gaza during the terror attack of October 7 and that she was held captive in ordinary Palestinian civilian homes.

An Israeli doctor is adding to growing accounts of torture and abuse by Hamas terrorists against Israeli hostages, telling the media that she has found evidence of sexual abuse, psychological torture, and forced medication with powerful drugs.

Hamas interrogated Israeli civilian hostages, including the elderly, about their past military service, and that of their neighbors, using physical force to extract answers, according to former hostages interviewed by Israel’s Army Radio on Monday.

Hamas terrorists branded some Israeli child hostages by forcing their legs against the exhaust pipes of motorcycles so that they would be burned and would be recognizable if they tried to run away, according to a report in the Israeli media on Thursday.

A Thai hostage who was freed by Hamas has told Israel’s Channel 12 that the Jewish hostages who were held with him were beaten with electric cables, and that all hostages were denied adequate food.

Officials in Venezuela’s socialist regime, a notorious human rights abuser, inspected the facilities of a brand new detention center on Wednesday named after the late South African President Nelson Mandela.

The Nicaraguan human rights collective Nicaragua Nunca Mas (“Nicaragua Never Again”) released a report this week accusing the communist Ortega regime of using 40 different types of torture on dozens of political prisoners.

The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders published a study this week, based on interviews with Cuban political prisoners and other empirical data, finding that the communist regime tortures 100 percent of its political prisoners through a wide variety of tactics including beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation, rape and threats of rape, and physical attacks on their relatives.

Roy Jaggers’ tortured, lifeless body was found at the bottom of a canyon 50 miles outside of Las Vegas in August 2021, and now all three of his killers have been brought to justice.

The U.S. State Department released its 2022 human rights report for China on Monday, enraging the Chinese Communist government by finding that “genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.”

An illegal alien MS-13 Gang member is set to stand trial next week, alongside his girlfriend, after the pair allegedly tortured and murdered the woman’s 10-year-old son, Anthony Avalos, in the sanctuary state of California. 

The U.N. prepared a troubling report on the insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, warning that the conflict is intensifying and putting more civilians, including children, at risk of abduction, rape, and torture.

The Algerian illegal migrant suspected of raping and murdering 12-year-old French girl Lola should have been deported in September.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

A Michigan man is accused of stalking, kidnapping, torturing, and raping a woman while holding her hostage for 13 hours inside a homemade sound-proof bunker.

Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz reported on Monday citing an original report by Fox News.

Migrant drug dealers in Italy are accused of carrying out brutal acts of torture, with Police saying they are aware of the situation.

A man was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of his teenage daughter in Monroe, North Carolina.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops in southern Ukraine have been carrying out torture and kidnappings, and he called on the world Sunday to respond.

The UK Home Office has outright refused to deport a former torturer for the Taliban over fears his ex-comrades would torture him should he return home.

A man went to the Bronx to see a woman he connected with on Instagram but reportedly ended up gagged and on the brink of death, according to the New York Post.

A married woman in her 20s was allegedly gang-raped by a group — including three minor boys — in Delhi, India, on January 26, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday, noting the attack seems to have been an act of revenge by the family of a 14-year-old boy after the woman allegedly rejected his advances.

Police in North Macedonia have arrested two Pakistani nationals and two Afghans suspected of trafficking and allegedly torturing migrants.

A federal lawsuit was filed recently after alleged abuse inside the Oklahoma County Jail, KFOR reported on Friday.

Cuban officials are committing “brutal abuses” against Cubans who participated in the largely peaceful July 11 protests against the country’s 62-year-old communist regime, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday.

ROME (AP) – The trial of four high-ranking members of Egypt’s security forces started Thursday without the Egyptians on hand to face charges they were involved in the abduction, torture, and killing in Cairo of an Italian doctoral student.

Human rights organization Safeguard Defenders said on Tuesday that China is holding thousands of prisoners in secret prisons, including political dissidents and human rights activists, and using physical and psychological torture to force them to sign confessions.

Relatives of Amer Fakhoury announced on Tuesday they are suing the government of Iran for his imprisonment and abuse at the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist organization and political party supported by Tehran.

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday declared “Syria is not safe” for returning refugees because they are being subjected to “detention, disappearance, and torture” by forces loyal to dictator Bashar Assad. 

Two Morrocan migrants have been arrested and another is on the run for allegedly drugging and attacking a 19-year-old.

Taliban terrorists “captured and executed” a Reuters photojournalist in July as he covered a military offensive led by the jihadist group near the Afghan city of Kandahar, an Afghan security official claimed to India Today on Tuesday.

Four men aged 19 to 21 allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 17-year-old boy because he reported drug dealers in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis to the police.

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday published an extensive report on the concentration camps China has constructed to imprison the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province.

Dissident Belarusan journalist Roman Protasevich, kidnapped by the Belarusan state when it hijacked a commercial airliner on May 23, appeared on Belarusan state television on Thursday praising dictator Alexander Lukashenko as a man with “balls of steel.”