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

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.

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.

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.”

Burmese poet Khet Thi, an ardent opponent of the junta that seized control of Myanmar from its elected civilian government in February, was arrested by regime forces on Saturday along with his wife Chaw Su.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday he is on a hunger strike to protest the lack of medical treatment he is receiving in Russia’s prison system.

The United Nations (U.N.) has condemned reports from Iran that LGBT youth suffer electric shocks and other mistreatment from state authorities, saying the practices amount to “torture,” the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.

Hamzah Ahmed, Clinton Prowell, and Cameron Wynne kidnapped a 14-year-old boy, stripped him naked, and tortured him with a stun gun for refusing to sell drugs for them in Hull, England.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry and government-run newspapers in the country launched a campaign Thursday to discredit women who have testified to being raped and tortured in Communist Party-run concentration camps, referring to them as criminals and “actors.”

Two migrant-background men involved in the torture of two underage boys at a cemetery in Solna, Sweden, have avoided the maximum sentence for their convictions.

The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the execution of an Iranian man Thursday for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old.

Author, blogger, and Chinese-born Australian citizen Yang Hengjun, arrested by China in 2019 on murky allegations of espionage in January 2019 and held without trial ever since, sent a Christmas on Tuesday message to the family he isn’t allowed to see.

The official office of the top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced this week that it had found “a reasonable basis to believe” socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro had committed crimes against humanity.

Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong is in solitary confinement with lights on 24 hours a day, friends denounced.

Two underage boys who were brutally tortured and raped at a Swedish cemetery have described their horrific ordeal to police as new details of the incident have emerged.

The UK Guardian on Thursday published interviews with several of the almost 400 people imprisoned at the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton in Saudi Arabia in late 2017.

Young boys enrolled in Sudan’s state-run Islamic schools face beatings, torture, and sexual abuse at the hands of older students and teachers, according to a report by BBC Arabic published on Monday.

Two migrant-background men have been accused of raping and torturing two underage boys in a cemetery in the Swedish city of Solna. 

At the Democrat National Convention (DNC) this week, a convicted murderer and kidnapper implicated in a gruesome 1985 torture and killing case was featured as a “criminal justice reform advocate.”

British grime artist Solo 45 has been jailed for 24 years after imprisoning, torturing, and raping four women.

Two men, Shaan Khanyal and Achal Close, alongside a teenager, have been jailed for kidnapping and robbery after abducting and torturing a young couple, tasering the male victim’s genitals, and holding a knife to the female victim’s throat in Coventry, England.

Dutch police have arrested six men after a torture chamber was discovered in a series of underground shipping containers, kitted out with implements of torture including a dentist chair, handcuffs, pliers, saws, and black hoods.

Non-Muslims in Iran suffer persecution at the hands of the government, including imprisonment, torture, and execution, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom.

An Italian court has sentenced three foreign people-smugglers to 20 years each after they were found guilty of torturing migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean.

Authorities in Egypt detain and forcibly disappear children as young as 12 years old, some being “waterboarded and electrocuted” while in detention, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Monday.

A report from the Paris-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) on Sunday charged Iranian officials with killing one person who was detained during last month’s protests and torturing several others.