Men in Sri Lanka are being raped in custody nearly a decade after the civil war, when sexual assault was routinely used to torture detained Tamils, a report said Wednesday. The rape of men and boys...
A jilted man who kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend before smashing her head with bricks and running her over with a car has been arrested, Indian police said on Sunday. Police in the northern...
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...
The man believed to be the boyfriend of a 22-year-old woman whose killing has shocked South Africa has appeared in court in Johannesburg to face murder charges, local media report. Karabo Mokoena’s...
An Egyptian Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching and is set to appear before a court for saying Christians and Jews followed corrupt religions and would not go to heaven. Salem Abdel Galil, a...
The head of a school in southern India has been arrested on suspicion of raping scores of disabled girls over a period of at least four years, police said Thursday. They said complaints from two...
The head of a school in southern India has been arrested on suspicion of raping scores of disabled girls over a period of at least four years, police said Thursday. They said complaints from two...
Incarcerated gay man Dr. Ali Gabass appears to have found himself a new job while he serves his time in prison at Nsawam. Dr. Gabass is imparting his knowledge in the sciences to his fellow inmates...
Women have been advised to stop the practice of providing dowry for men to present to their (women) parents as bride price to marry them. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Emmanuel Holortu,...
Samuel Ruddy was working as a teacher in Paris when he was abducted and murdered Human remains have been found at the site in northern France where a search has been taking place for the body of...
A 21-year-old from northern Ghana was last year stopped from joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Executive Director of the West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism (WACCE), Mr...
India's Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a woman on board a bus in 2012, a crime that sparked widespread protests and drew international attention over...
Thirteen men accused of involvement in the murder of high-ranking police officer Andrew Kaweesi and two aides appeared in court Friday, with some claiming they had been tortured while in detention....
The four men convicted of a fatal 2012 gang rape of a Delhi student had their death sentences upheld in India's top court Friday, for an attack that shocked the world and led to tough new penalties...
An Indian court Thursday convicted five police officers and two doctors of tampering with evidence in the gang rape of a pregnant woman and the murder of her family during one of the worst incidents...
The devastated grandmother of a young boy filmed being coached to kill Australians has lashed out at his notorious Islamic State fighter father for using him as a "media tool". Footage surfaced in...
A man who raped a five-year-old girl and said her mum would die if she told anyone has been jailed for 13 years. Police believe Jerry Ablorh, 41, from Thornton Heath, may have more victims who have...
The man who murdered his own son A 31-year-old farmer, Abdul Salam, who was arrested at Adidaase near Manso Amenfi in the Wassa Amenfi Central district of the Western Region for the gruesome murder...
Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday. Wearing police...
