torture

A former employee of the UK’s Hong Kong consulate says he was tortured on a trip to mainland China and forced to confess to involvement in pro-democracy protests.

The Government has never delivered on promises to hold a fully independent, judge-led inquiry into UK complicity in US torture and extraordinary rendition of individuals as part of the so-called ‘war on terror’.

Unaccompanied children arriving in France’s Alpine region undergo flawed age assessments that deny many access to needed protection, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.

The finding came in response to an individual complaint from a man who, as a domestic worker in Kathmandu from the age of nine,  was subjected to physical and psychological abuse.