World news about “Torture” published by euronews.
Human rights activists claim to have found torture evidence in Syria Human rights activists have visited what Syrian rebels described as abandoned government prisons in which they alleged detainees were tortured. Human Rights… 17/05/2013
Amnesty cites UN hypocrisy, EU scapegoating euronews London correspondent Ali Sheikholeslami spoke to Amnesty International’s secretary-general Salil Shetty about groundshifts taking place in Muslim… 24/05/2012
Human Rights award goes to Russian group The Russian organisation, The Committee against Torture, has won the 2011 Human Rights Prize. It was awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council… 23/06/2011
Berlin haven for Iranian victims of torture Is Iran a ‘torture state’? How does Tehran treat political opponents? After the controversial presidential election last year, many opposition members fled… 16/10/2010
Funeral of Egypt activist ‘tortured to death’The funeral of an activist allegedly “tortured to death” has given Egyptian protesters another reason to be angry at the president. Twenty-eight year old… 04/02/2013
Kenyans win torture case against British governmentAt the High Court in London supporters of three elderly Kenyans celebrated after a ruling which says they can sue Britain. The Kenyans were tortured during… 05/10/2012
UN condemns Georgia prison abuseGeorgia’s newly-appointed prisons minister Georgy Tugushi says he will put an end to torture and violence in detention. The message comes in the wake of… 21/09/2012
Britain deports Sri Lankans despite torture concernsTwenty-five Sri Lankans have arrived home after being deported from Britain. Some of them are Tamils and human rights groups fear they could be tortured… 21/09/2012
Georgia: Outcry over prison torture videoMothers of prisoners were joined by thousands of protesters on Thursday, after a video emerged showing guards torturing and raping inmates at a prison. They… 20/09/2012
Georgian president to punish prison abusersAngry protesters lined the streets of Tbilisi, appalled by videos apparently showing torture in the country’s jails. The footage, which was aired on an… 19/09/2012
Georgia prisons minister resigns after revelations of inmate torture and rapeHundreds of people held a spontaneous protest in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi early on Wednesday following late night news bulletins purportedly showing the… 19/09/2012
Syria: Report reveals torture centresThere is a network of torture centres in Syria. That’s a conclusion in a report just published by The Human Rights Watch group. It recorded more than 200… 03/07/2012
Syria: New claims of torture by Assad’s regimeRefugees are continuing to stream out of Syria, where the regime is running torture centres according to Human Rights Watch. Nearly 300 people crossed into… 03/07/2012
Ex-UK Foreign Secretary faces legal action over ‘rendition’Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj is taking legal action against Jack Straw, the former British Foreign Secretary, over his complicity in a rendition case… 18/04/2012
France ‘torture’ auction cancelled amid Algeria rowThey are tools of torture from the distant past. Yet recent French history has got in the way of an auction that was due to put a chilling collection of… 03/04/2012
Aid charity accuses Libya of torturing prisonersMedical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has ended its work in the Libyan city of Misrata amid claims that it is being asked to patch up tortured detainees… 26/01/2012
Belarus: Jailed opposition leader was tortured claims wifeJailed Belarussian ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov has been tortured into asking for a pardon from President Alexander Lukashenko, according to the… 25/01/2012
Republican rivals talk tough on foreign policyRivals for the Republican nomination to run for US President next year took a tough line in a televised debate on foreign policy. Front-runner Mitt Romney… 13/11/2011
More claims of Austrian incest and incarcerationAustrian police have arrested an 85-year-old man suspected of imprisoning and sexually abusing his two daughters for more than 40 years. Police say both… 25/08/2011
Chile acknowledges thousands more Pinochet victimsChile is reliving the horrors of the Pinochet era, with a new report exposing almost 10,000 new cases of human rights violations during the… 19/08/2011
Freed journalist tells of beatings in a Syrian jailA journalist for Al Jazeera has spoken of her harrowing ordeal while being held for nearly three weeks in a Syrian jail. Despite foreign journalists being… 19/05/2011
Syrian protesters reject al-Assad ‘concessions’Thousands of protesters marched in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad’s 11-year-rule on Friday. Anti-government demonstrations have been held in Syria… 15/04/2011
Former Argentinian general jailed for rights abusesA former Argentinian army general and three ex-intelligence agents have been sentenced to long jail terms for human rights abuses. The charges relate to… 01/04/2011
Philippine army promises reform after ‘torture’ videoThe Philippine army on Tuesday vowed to reform its training procedures after a video emerged on the Internet purporting to show troops abusing young… 22/03/2011
BBC journalists beaten and jailed by Libyan forcesA BBC news team beaten and jailed by Libyan security forces say they were subjected to a mock execution and saw evidence of prisoners being tortured. The… 10/03/2011
Egyptian police film own brutalityAnger against daily abuse and torture by the police was one of the elements that triggered the popular revolt in Egypt. One case stood out: that of… 07/02/2011
Prisoner abuse in Iraq routinely ignored by coalitionSome 400,000 secret US military documents that detail abuse, summary executions and torture in Iraq have been placed in the public domain by Wikileaks. The… 23/10/2010
UK government orders torture inquiryBritain will investigate whether its security services knew about the torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil and may compensate some detainees. The… 06/07/2010
‘Electric shock’ game show shocks TV researchersHow can TV turn people into torturers? A documentary broadcast on French television depicts a game show where participants willingly give electric shocks to… 17/03/2010
UK government loses torture appealSecret information relating to the alleged torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed by CIA agents can be published according to London’s Court of… 11/02/2010
CIA under fire for prisoner abuse in WashingtonThe United States have appointed a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of prisoner abuse of CIA-held suspects. The move comes after the Justice… 25/08/2009
Calls for inquiry over UK torture claimsBritain is under increasing pressure over its alleged complicity in torture, with a parliamentary committee demanding a full independent inquiry. In a… 05/08/2009
CIA “lied to Congress” claims PelosiThis is what waterboarding looks like, and now the Democrat’s Nancy Pelosi says the CIA lied about its use in post 9-11 interrogations when she was on the… 15/05/2009
White House U-turn over alleged torture picturesUS President Barack Obama has done an about-turn and now says he wants to block the publication of photos showing the alleged torture and humiliation of… 14/05/2009
