torture

May 29, 2017

Saudi Arabia upholds death sentence for tortured protester

Saudi Arabia has upheld a protest-related death sentence for a protester who was tortured so badly that he was rendered completely deaf in one ear. The judgment marks the first such move for several months, and comes days after President Trump visited the Kingdom.
February 7, 2017

New report reveals 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian military prison

A new Amnesty International report published today has exposed the "cold-blooded killing of thousands of defenceless prisoners" in a Syrian government jail where an estimated 13,000 people have been hanged in the past five years, and where mass hangings of up to 50 people at a time occur every week, sometimes twice a week.
February 6, 2017

Human rights organisation says UK concealed training for Bahrain police

UK authorities trained Bahrain’s police how to gather intelligence on protestors, and then tried to cover up the scheme, the international human rights group Reprieve has found. The project took place after protestors in the Gulf kingdom were rounded up and sentenced to death.
January 26, 2017

UK must play no role in torture says human rights organisation

The Prime Minister must ensure the UK plays no role in a revived US torture programme, human rights organisation Reprieve has warned today, after President Trump said that he believes ‘torture works.’
January 19, 2017

Yemeni prisoner released after 15 years in Guantánamo without charge

A Yemeni man was among ten prisoners released on 16 January 2016 from Guantánamo Bay to Oman, the US Department of Defense has confirmed.
December 1, 2016

CIA chief warns Trump against torture

The director of the CIA, John Brennan, has warned President-elect Donald Trump against resuming the use of torture.
November 3, 2016

Italian police ill-treating refugees and migrants says Amnesty

Police in Italy have subjected refugees and migrants to serious ill-treatment, including beatings, electric shocks – and have even used pliers on one man's testicles – to force them to be fingerprinted under an EU-sponsored scheme to process refugees and migrants in the country. In some cases, this treatment may amount to torture.
October 15, 2016

Secrecy over UK work at Bahrain’s death-row jail challenged

Britain’s secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by the international human rights group Reprieve.
September 26, 2016

UK fails to check whether Saudi police training led to torture

The UK has failed to check whether training it has provided to Saudi police has contributed to abuses including torture and the death penalty, new research by human rights organisation Reprieve has revealed.
June 23, 2016

Report on survivors of torture

In the run-up to the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture this Sunday, the UK charity Freedom from Torture has released an interactive map showing the top ten countries of origin for survivors being referred to it alongside a new report on the needs of torture survivors who are on the move as part of the refugee crisis.