Tags - Torture
Calls for Julian Assange's "torture" and "medical neglect" to be brought to an end are now supported by 186 physicians from around the world, as of March 11, 2020.
News ID: 449568 Publish Date : 2020/03/13
Palestinian NGO:
Israeli prisons are rife with mistreatment and abuse of Palestinian inmates, a rights advocacy group says, highlighting that well over 1,000 complaints of torture by prison guards have been filed since 2001.
News ID: 448193 Publish Date : 2019/12/30
The family of prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul says she has dismissed a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video testimony denying that she had been tortured and sexually harassed in custody.
News ID: 446586 Publish Date : 2019/08/14
Report:
An American citizen was allegedly tortured while in custody in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by The New York Times.
News ID: 443731 Publish Date : 2019/03/04
HRW:
Human Rights Watch has accused the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group of using “torture” against those opposing its rule in Syria’s militant-held northwestern province of Idlib.
News ID: 443210 Publish Date : 2019/01/29
A political dissident and renowned Muslim preacher in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been brutally tortured in prison as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
News ID: 442969 Publish Date : 2019/01/12
Testimonies released by three Palestinian boys revealed that they had been made to endure systematic torture during and after detention by Israeli occupation forces.
News ID: 442577 Publish Date : 2018/12/23
Rasa - A United Nations human rights watchdog urged Saudi authorities to free more than a dozen rights activists detained in the kingdom, alleging some had been tortured or mistreated during interrogation.
News ID: 442088 Publish Date : 2018/12/14
Rasa - A political dissident and Muslim preacher in Saudi Arabia has reportedly died as a result of torture while in regime custody as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
News ID: 439111 Publish Date : 2018/08/15
Report:
Rasa - Sources confirmed that Prince Miteb, son of late King Abdullah, is among six princes who needed hospital treatment following arrest in Saudi purge.
News ID: 434854 Publish Date : 2017/11/19
Bahraini lawyer:
RNA - A Bahraini lawyer described torture chambers inside the country as “a shame for the international community.”
News ID: 431970 Publish Date : 2017/08/27
Rasa - Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 detainee interrogation program will stand trial in September for promoting the use of torture methods.
News ID: 431550 Publish Date : 2017/08/09
Rasa - Bahrain's National Security Agency (NSA) tortured and threatened with rape an online activist, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said.
News ID: 431530 Publish Date : 2017/08/08
Rasa - Bahraini regime forces have arrested another Shia Muslim cleric as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown and persecution of the members of the religious community.
News ID: 431148 Publish Date : 2017/07/21
Analyst:
Rasa - The US government’s plan to separate children from their mothers who are crossing the US border illegally is a form of “torture” and underscores Washington’s indifference towards the consequences of its policies, says a political analyst in Chicago.
News ID: 427927 Publish Date : 2017/03/06
UN expert:
Rasa - US President Donald Trump’s willingness to use torture as an interrogation tactic "lays down the gauntlet" for other governments to follow suit and authorize similar practices, warns a top UN lawyer.
News ID: 427845 Publish Date : 2017/03/04
HRW:
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Daesh Takfiri terrorists are raping and torturing Sunni Arab women in the areas under their control in Iraq.
News ID: 427537 Publish Date : 2017/02/20
Rasa - The United Nations' top torture expert has warned US President Donald Trump that reinstating waterboarding and other torture techniques for interrogating terror suspects would have catastrophic global consequences.
News ID: 427026 Publish Date : 2017/02/01
Rasa - A broad coalition of human rights, civil liberties, and religious groups has written a letter to US President Donald Trump, warning him against any executive action that would bring back torture and other abusive interrogation and detention practices.
News ID: 426904 Publish Date : 2017/01/28
Rasa - The United Nations reaffirmed on Friday that torture is illegal and that refugees deserve protection, while ducking any direct criticism of remarks made by new US President Donald Trump.
News ID: 426890 Publish Date : 2017/01/27