カテゴリー: Torture
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stre…
Investigators warn in a report that ‘frequency and brutality’ of atrocities in the country are continuing to escalateChildren as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison fac…
Damning report cites human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in north-west Chinese provinceChina has committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province that could amount to crimes against humanity, the outgoi…
Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017A British Sikh campaigner is facing a possible death sentence after the UK intelligence services passed on information about him to the Indian author…
Allegations include 160 killings of ex-government officials and security forces, torture and punishmentsTaliban authorities have presided over widespread human rights abuses since they took control of Afghanistan last August, the UN said, including 160…
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intelligence services who allegedly asked the CIA to put questions to a detainee who was being tortured in “black sites” were subject to the law of…
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisonersThe cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyon…
Australian writer says he fears hidden cameras captured forced confessions during interrogationsYang Hengjun, the Australian writer facing espionage charges in China, told his secret trial in Beijing he is “100% innocent” but he has said he was torture…
Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina’s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out measures designed to e…
Simon Cheng, a former UK consular employee, has only been offered a two-year visaQuestions have been raised about Britain’s treatment of a former UK consular worker from Hong Kong, who said he was asked to resign after being detained and allegedly tort…
Simon Cheng, who worked at consulate, alleges repeated mental and physical abuseA former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has alleged he was tortured while being detained in China during a 15-day ordeal in which he said he was accused of …