A human rights advocacy group is demanding justice for a 16-year-old boy who was allegedly assaulted by three military officers two years ago over alleged stealing of a mobile phone. The group, Youth...
Kaneshie-based physically challenged musician Pazzo Joe says he feels dejected seeing movie scenes that mock and mimic people with disabilities. The up-and-coming musician, real name Shaddrack Kojo...
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday he rejected the use of torture in interrogations, calling the practice illegal and ineffective. Asked in a...
A former CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago said Thursday she intended to return to Italy to face her sentence, but hopes to...
Chinese police and prosecutors are banned from using torture to obtain evidence under rules released Tuesday, in the latest attempt to curb forced confessions in the country's criminal justice...
The silicone bracelet I’m wearing around my wrist isn’t particularly subtle. But it’s not meant to be. The bright red strap encases a small rectangular rechargeable battery that sits against my...
Democrats on Friday accused a powerful Republican senator of seeking to erase the history of the CIA's torture program in the 2000s by demanding copies of a highly classified report be handed over to...
The woman was stoned to death after she was accused of being a witch A 67-year-old woman has been stoned to death by the people of Tindongo in the Upper East region, after she was accused of being a...
Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters. He...
Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters. He...
A court run by militant Islamists in southern Somalia has stoned a married man to death for adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab...
A threat by radical Islamists in northeast Mali to punish an unmarried couple with death by stoning finally was not carried out, local officials told AFP on Monday. Officials had told AFP on May 17...
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, local officials told AFP on Wednesday, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years...
Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight escalating brutality and impunity by the country's security personnel....
A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in a report published Friday, and called on Islamabad to implement...
A US judge granted limited relaxations Thursday to the stringent custody conditions of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and allowed him to write to his beauty queen wife. The 60-year-old,...
A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for subjecting her three-year-old nephew to severe beatings, denying him food for days and leaving assault marks all over the boy’s body at Agbobloshie, in...
Afghan security officials are increasingly employing torture to extract confessions from alleged insurgents, including children, according to a UN report issued Monday that urged Kabul to bring more...
One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned with acid and choking on earth as soldiers buried him alive. Mexico called...
When a new style of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City's metro system, it was labelled as inappropriate, uncomfortable, humiliating and embarrassing. It was supposed to be. The seat, moulded to...
