torture

May 15, 2019

UN urges investigation following death of detainee in Lebanon

Hassan Toufic Dika’s death occurred despite numerous interventions by a variety of UN entities, including the UN Human Rights Office, with the Lebanese authorities after he was allegedly tortured in prison following his arrest in November 2018.
May 13, 2019

London event marks a year of Saudi Arabia's crackdown on women's rights

On 15 May 2018, a number of prominent women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia were detained for their peaceful human rights work.
May 11, 2019

Campaigners say Royal hosting of King of Bahrain is 'a moral disgrace'

Human Rights Watch has accused the Bahraini authorities of torture, arbitrary citizenship revocations, and the intimidation and abuse of human rights campaigners.
May 8, 2019

Civil society groups report on UK's failure to meet anti-torture obligations

The report says a culture of tolerance to ill-treatment and even torture has developed in the last five years, and the situation has got worse, not better.
April 25, 2019

Saudi Arabia executes 37 people in a single day, including three juveniles

Saudi Arabia’s official press agency has announced a mass execution of 37 people. Most, if not all, were convicted in the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), the Kingdom’s secretive and widely condemned anti-terrorism tribunal.
April 18, 2019

Progress in torture eradication in Afghanistan, but 'a long way to go'

Nearly a third of conflict-related detainees interviewed provided credible and reliable accounts of having been subject to torture or ill-treatment.
March 15, 2019

High Court suspends policy of removing migrants from the UK without warning

The Home Office removals policy enabling it to refuse a migrant’s case and forcibly remove them from the UK within hours has been suspended by a High Court judge.
March 11, 2019

Supreme Court reasserts role of medical experts in asylum claims by torture survivors

The lower courts were wrong to override the conclusions of a medical expert when considering forensic evidence of torture in an asylum claim, the Supreme Court has ruled.
March 7, 2019

UN member states 'must demand release of women activists in Saudi Arabia'

Saudi Arabia has used counter-terrorism legislation to detain women activists who have been tortured and sexually abused.
March 5, 2019

Report exposes abuses on a global scale by WWF funded guards

A major investigation by news site Buzzfeed has exposed a shocking level of violent abuse by ecoguards and rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund.