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.
A 14-year-old Syrian boy recently told the BBC the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) filmed militants torturing him to use in propaganda. Only a few days ago, local officials in Iraq’s Anbar and Diyala provinces told Turkish state outlet Anadolu Agency the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped almost 500 children to use as suicide bombers.
Indonesia is facing international backlash after it was revealed the government requires female military recruits to undergo virginity tests. It is the second time in the past 6 months human rights organizations put pressure on the country to drop these tests.
A new Human Rights Watch report accuses China law enforcement authorities of dodging new government measures designed to minimize the use of torture and abuse in the police system. Police still routinely use beatings, sleep deprivation, and hanging prisoners by the walls to force confessions, the organization alleges.
Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.
A former hostage of the Islamic State who was imprisoned alongside executed Westerners Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, among others, reports that the terrorist group had built a rudimentary replica of America’s Guantánamo Bay facility in Syria with the intention of filling it with Western citizens and torturing them.
ISIS fighters are “buying their wives kinky underwear,” demanding Viagra to better their performance, and subjecting their wives, concubines, and sex slaves to sadistic sexual practices, according to Syrian doctors forced to treat jihadists in conquered territories.
Monday, demonstrators stopped Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) in the middle of a speech on the Senate floor by screaming “U.S. torture, it’s official, prosecute now!” The Capitol Police arrested 11 and restored order saying, ”One more outburst and you will
Angelina Jolie’s new World War II movie, based on Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, follows the story of Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini and the torturous treatment he received at the
