How someone becomes a torturer
September 10, 2021
very day, thousands of people are tortured in police stations, security offices and prisons around the world. Human rights organizations protest torture and advocate for survivors, but neither they nor the public knows much about the torturers themselves. Where do torturers come from? How can they do such terrible things? And most important, is there a way […]
Young asylum seeker at high risk of suicide after being blocked from joining brothers in UK, court hears
August 10, 2021
A young asylum seeker who is stranded in a Greek refugee camp after being blocked from joining his brothers in the UK is at high risk of suicide, a medical report shows. In May Samir fled to Europe after fleeing detention and torture in his home country in 2019, was living alone and in fear on the fringes of a refugee camp […]
German prosecutors charge Syrian doctor with crimes against humanity
July 29, 2021
A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity, federal prosecutors said. Alla Mousa, who came to Germany in 2015, is accused of torturing at least 18 people in military hospitals in Homs and Damascus after the 2011 uprising. One person was allegedly killed, while the suspect had also tried to make […]
Syria refugees to face their torturers in German court
April 22, 2021
Six years ago Wassim Mukdad fled Syria, demoralized and fearing for his life as the country spiraled ever deeper into all-out war. This week, the 34-year-old will come face-to-face with the man accused of running a government detention center where Mukdad and thousands of others were tortured during the early months of the uprising against […]
‘Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
February 25, 2021
Thursday Ziawudun spent nine months inside China’s vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. According to independent estimates, more than a million men and women have been detained in the sprawling network of camps, which China says exist for the “re-education” of the Uighurs and other minorities. Human rights groups say […]