The chief of India’s army has been accused of endorsing the use of human shields after he defended one of his subordinates who tied a civilian to a vehicle to allegedly deter violent protests in the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
An asylum seeker in Germany brutally tortured a fellow migrant by cutting off his eyelids and blinding him by shoving a pen into his eyes over a 50 euro debt.
A woman from India was sold to her immigration sponsor for an estimated $4,700 after she entered Saudi Arabia on a housemaid visa and is being tortured by her captor, her daughter tells the Times of India (TOI).
Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper has asked the Kremlin for protection after Chechen clerics threatened “retribution” for a report on the torture and murder of gay men.
Hundreds of migrants from West Africa are being bought and auctioned off at “slave markets” in Libya opened to the public, a United Nations agency has learned from survivors.
In his preface to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States is committed to guaranteeing human rights around the globe.
A senior Fatah official received a court summons and compensation lawsuit for $250 million upon landing at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York over his involvement in the killing of an American-Palestinian citizen in 1995.
The mother of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student tortured, mutilated and slain in Egypt last year, has appealed to Pope Francis to press the matter during his upcoming visit to Cairo.
A Muslim faith healer has been arrested for the brutal drugging and stabbing of 20 of his disciples at a Sufi shrine in Punjab, Pakistan.
In an emotional, exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka, who is now serving as the Deputy Assistant to President Trump, tells the true story about the medal his father received for fighting tyranny.
Four Chicago suspects pleaded not guilty on Friday to several charges related to a kidnapping and racially-charged torture of a young schizophrenic man broadcast on Facebook Live.
The UK Daily Mail relates a tale of Islamic State depravity from Russian news sources, in which a 10-year-old Iraqi girl living in occupied Mosul was tortured to death in front of her mother for the crime of going outside without an escort.
Donations for the mentally disabled victim who was tied up, beaten, and tortured during a Facebook Live broadcast in Chicago reached over $80,000 on the fundraising website GoFundMe.
The White House reacted to the Facebook live video of four African-American teenagers beating and torturing a white disabled man, denouncing the apparent crime.
The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule.
Human rights watchdog group Amnesty International has accused fighters dressed in Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) uniforms of committing war crimes by torturing and extrajudicially executing civilians they arrested in villages south of Mosul.
Islamic State militants fighting to hold on to their Mosul stronghold have displayed the crucified bodies of five people they said gave information to “the enemy”, and are back on the city streets policing the length of men’s beards, residents say.
TEL AVIV – Turkish authorities reportedly tortured political detainees after a failed military coup led to thousands of arrests during the government-declared state of emergency, NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian filed a federal lawsuit against the government of Iran on Monday, asserting that he was taken hostage and psychologically tortured during 18 months of captivity, to extract concessions from the U.S. government in the Iranian nuclear deal.
Rebel fighters affiliated with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have reportedly discovered a “hidden” detention center in northern Syria where Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists used the “worst, most violent torture tools” on female prisoners.
The family of John Hamen of Chesapeake, Virginia, has filed a federal lawsuit against the governments of Syria and Iran, seeking $319 million in damages for his torture and murder by Iran-backed Houthi insurgents in Yemen.
Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, who served as a Navy SEAL, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about retired Marine Corps General John Allen’s comments during the weekend that victory by Donald Trump in the 2016 election could cause a “civil military crisis, the likes of which we’ve not seen in this country.”
Defense attorneys for five 9/11 plotters, including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are charging that the CIA destroyed a “black site” in an unspecified country, removing evidence of torture, with the permission of the trial judge.
Shiite militias in Iraq, many of them backed by state sponsor of terror Iran, have been accused of torturing “hundreds” of Sunni civilians captured during the ongoing battle to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
As the number of complaints of torture by Mexican authorities continue to increase and various human rights groups along with journalists continue to criticize that country’s governments over the methods used by authorities to get information out of cartel members, former soldiers and residents along the border appear to be in agreement with the tactics calling them a sort of retribution on their part.
In a bizarre and disturbing series of events, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been put on trial for torturing and starving his 11-year-old son, whom he considered to be possessed by the devil. The officer also attempted to enlist his brother — a Catholic priest — to perform an exorcism on the child.
On Wednesday, Reuters announced that an online poll showed “nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists.”
Following a last minute meet and greet in Peoria, Arizona, 2016 Republican presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters that President Obama’s visit to the communist dictatorship of Cuba that day was “a sad day in American history” and that
A growing number of former Guantánamo Bay detainees are returning to the battlefield to fight for jihad, even as President Obama pushes a plan to close the prison for good.
Donald Trump backs off from his statement on torture and the military from Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate.
Michael Hayden, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, recommends Donald Trump bring his own bucket if he wants to engage in enhanced interrogation methods, such as waterboarding, against enemy combatants.
Dangerous criminal alien Bac Duong turned himself into authorities on Friday, just a week after he and two other violent criminals escaped from an Orange County Jail. The other two remain at large.
One of three dangerous Orange County jail escapees was first ordered deported in 1998, but never was.
TEL AVIV – A Gaza journalist announced he is quitting his beat as a political journalist after being tortured in a Hamas jail, the Associated Press reported. Ayman al-Aloul is one of the rare voices willing to criticize the rule
Police in Northern California are investigating a horrific double homicide involving two children, aged three and five, who were found in a storage unit. A nine-year-old little girl is also fighting for her life as a result of her injuries.
A new report from Amnesty International charges the Assad regime with making over 65,000 Syrians ‘disappear’ during four years of civil war, an “organized attack against the civilian population” carried out not just for political gain, but for profit.
According to Human Rights Watch, violence against women in PNG “is rampant,” and often involves charges of sorcery. In February, 2013, a mob in Western Highlands Province accused 20-year-old Kepari Leniata of witchcraft after a six-year-old child died in her city. The mob stripped her and burned her to death as a witch. Eight other women reportedly were victims of such attacks during the course of the year.
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner recently wrapped up a visit to Mexico, describing his visit as “sobering.” Despite noting several legislative developments and reforms in the country, the Mexican people have painted a tragic picture filled with widespread corruption and insecurity.
A former prisoner of the Islamic State says in a interview that he personally witnessed ISIS jihadists carving organs and stealing blood from prisoners in order to help wounded jihadis survive.
The first stories about ISIS desecrating churches and turning them into torture chambers, where Christians were slaughtered or forced to convert to Islam, began surfacing at the end of 2014. A new report from Christian Freedom International found the persecution of Christians was even more brutal and widespread than believed, with centuries-old Christian communities across the Islamic State war zone completely wiped out.
