The European Union likes to cast itself as a champion of human rights, both at home and beyond its borders. So why is the E.U. allowing European firms to export thumbscrews, stun guns and other ...
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights ...
A guillotine looming menacingly outside the Freedom Tower evokes terrifying references ranging from the industrial-scale beheadings of the French Revolution to the U ...
The Post’s Louisa Loveluck went inside a Syrian detention facility in Aleppo on Dec. 13 and found Assad regime records and cell doors covered in tally marks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A collection of torture devices used in the 16th and 17th centuries will be sold in New York City with some of the proceeds going to charities campaigning for a ban on torture.
During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and perform executions. Some methods were considerably crueler than others — these 10 being ...
An electric shock stun baton and stun guns on display at the annual IWA 2015 trade event in Nuremberg, Germany. © Robin Ballantyne / Omega Research Foundation Thumb ...
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