Category: Torture
First trial over Syrian state-sponsored torture looms in Germany
October 19, 2019
Germany charged two alleged former Syrian secret service officers with participating in crimes against humanity, paving the way for the first trial worldwide over State-sponsored torture in Syria, a German NGO said on Tuesday. “The first trial worldwide about state torture in Syria is expected to start in Germany in early 2020 – an important […]
A roadmap towards a torture-free Fiji
December 8, 2016
IN August 2014, Vilikesa Soko, a 30-year-old husband, and father of three were beaten to death by police and military officers. Soko and another man were suspects in a robbery. After being taken into custody, they have subjected to beatings so severe that the investigating officer in the case said they struggled to walk or […]
Mexico´s faces a test to end torture of women by police and military
July 20, 2016
Verónica Razo, a Mexican 37-year-old mother of three is terrified of sleeping. Every night, when she lies in her bed in a small cell in Morelo’s’ federal prison, an hour outside the capital, Mexico City, her mind replays the scariest 24 hours of her life. On 8 June 2011, federal police raped, suffocated, and electrocuted […]
Torture in China
January 14, 2012
Although the People’s Republic of China outlawed torture in 1996, human rights groups say brutality and degradation are common in Chinese arbitrary detention centers, Laojiao prisons, and black jails. People who are imprisoned for their political views, human rights activities, or religious beliefs have a high risk of being tortured. Strategies of torture inside black jails include deprivation of […]