For months, China has detained women from Muslim ethnic groups for cyber'pre-crimes' such as using the messaging app WhatsApp and a school Gmail account. The Chinese government classifies such "violators" as pre-criminals.

China detains Muslim women for using WhatsApp, Gmail

The former Chinese detective turned whistleblower has revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.

Torture inflicted on Uyghurs in Xinjiang revealed by Chinese detective in exile

In a sign that the Taliban may not be in a mood to allow vibrant, free media to flourish, horrific images of Afghan journalists beaten up and tortured by Taliban fighters have surfaced.

Taliban brutally flog and torture Afghan journalists for covering women's protests

Dozens of Syrians who returned home from abroad have been subject to detention, disappearance and torture by security forces, Amnesty International said Tuesday, warning Syria is not yet safe for repatriation.

Returning Syrian refugees face torture, rape: Amnesty

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was abducted in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, held for several hours and brutally attacked. The interior ministry of Pakistan has denied the claims.

Daughter of Afghanistan envoy kidnapped and tortured in Pakistan

A German court sentenced a former member of President Bashar al-Assad's security services to 4-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for abetting the torture of civilians, the first such verdict for crimes against humanity in the 10-year-old Syrian civil war.

German court issues guilty verdict in first Syria torture trial

A United Nations report on Wednesday claimed that a third of those held by Afghan authorities for offences related to security and terrorism are undergoing mistreatment and torture in detention centres.

Third of detainees in Afghanistan face torture, UN report says

The Egyptian police force, in tandem with the National Security Agency has been accused of forced disappearances, torture of children. Human Rights Watch and Belady: An Island for Humanity in report which was released today claim that the legal system ignored the abuse.

Egyptian security forces allegedly torture, detain children in direct violation of law

A group of 117 doctors penned an open letter in a medical journal called The Lancet. The group of doctors have called for an end to what has been described as the psychological torture and medical neglect with Julian Assange in prison. Assange is currently facing 18 charges in America which includes planning to hack into a computer at the Pentagon

Doctors Warning: Julian Assange can 'die' in UK jail

A former employee of Britain's consulate in Hong Kong said Wednesday that Chinese secret police tortured and interrogated him about London's role in protests in the semi-autonomous city.

Former United Kingdom consulate worker says Chinese police tortured him

Grief, fear, and anger have enveloped the town of Chunian in Pakistan's eastern, Punjab province after the bodies of three missing children were found in a district which has seen numerous cases of child abuse and abductions in recent years.

Pakistani town grapples with child abuse and abduction

Paramilitary men beat and tortured to death a civilian in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, a doctors committee linked to the country's protest movement said Tuesday.

Sudan paramilitaries 'torture' civilian to death: Doctors

In the video posted on Twitter by filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, the woman, a Khar resident, is seen weeping for "help and justice"

Mumbai woman alleges torture in video, seeks help from police through Twitter

According to reports the husband of the woman is an automobile businessman, and stay in a duplex apartment in Khar, Mumbai

Video: Mumbai woman seeks police help against husband's torture through Twitter

50 Sri Lankan Tamil men had said last week that they were raped and tortured by Lankan authorities on the suspicion of being members of the LTTE -- seven years after the end of the civil war

Tamil torture wounds may have been self-inflicted: Lord Naseby

Trump vowed during the 2016 election campaign to resume water boarding and a 'hell of a lot worse'

Trump could reinstate CIA's secret 'black site' prisons: US officials

'I don't give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do'

John McCain says US will never waterboard under Trump

The prisoners recount being beaten until they urinated blood, given electric shocks, and confined in isolation without access to lawyers

Amnesty slams torture of Vietnam's prisoners of conscience

They killed 645 people last year, the grisly toll includes dozens of execution-style killings

Rio police kill, torture with impunity: Rights group

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