Category: Torture
Signs of torture on bodies found in Ukraine town liberated from Russia
October 28, 2022
In recaptured Lyman, Kim Sengupta finds evidence of Russian atrocities and Ukrainian commanders ready to administer their own justice Mounds of brown earth slide into the rows of graves on a day of cold rain and whipping winds as forensic investigators exhume bodies on a hillside to the sound of shellfire in the valleys beyond. Two separate […]
Rwanda flight migrants ‘include victims of torture and human trafficking’
September 4, 2022
Out of the 17 people that doctors conducted clinical assessments for, 14 showed evidence of having been tortured and six were survivors of trafficking Asylum seekers who are survivors of trafficking and torture have been selected for removal to Rwanda, a charity has said. Medical Justice was contacted by 51 people in immigration detention targeted for removal under the […]
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 […]
New details of torture, cover-ups in China’s internment camps revealed in Amnesty International report
June 11, 2021
Chinese officials spent days burning documents after government information leaked to global media exposed conditions in the camps. The prevalence of torture and the lengths to which the Chinese government has gone to cover up its treatment of Muslim minorities are described in comprehensive detail in an Amnesty International report on detention camps in Western China. Every former camp […]
‘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 […]