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Torture

August 2024

  • A Guantanamo detainee's feet are shackled to the floor as he attends a "Life Skills" class at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

    The Guardian view on Guantánamo Bay: betraying the victims of terrorism too

  • shirtless man with earplug in one ear. he's bearded with a shaved head

    Revealed: first picture of war on terror detainee in CIA black site

July 2024

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    Rights and freedom
    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • A windowless tiled room with a barred gate. The metal reinforcements for the derelict concrete walls can be seen

    Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

May 2024

  • Syrian activists wearing T-shirts hold up pictures of people missing in Syria

    Children and elderly people tortured at Syria military prison, Paris court told

    Three top officers close to Bashar al-Assad are on trial in absentia over the deaths of a student and his father
  • Alice Edwards

    The IPP scandal
    Prisoners serving sentences with no clear end is a stain on British justice – it also amounts to torture

    Alice Edwards
    As a UN expert on psychological torture, I’ve asked peers to reconsider the IPP sentences still affecting thousands in jail, says Alice Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture
  • A spacious garden with large wicker-like plants, a fire pit with a wood oven in the centre, a red metal table and chairs, and various pastel-coloured flowers.

    Chelsea flower show hosts garden designed to help survivors of torture

    Charity that challenged UK’s Rwanda policy helps create space designed to evoke happier memories of homelands

April 2024

  • Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces at a refugee camp

    US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty

  • Keith Carmichael of the torture survivor charity Redress.

    Keith Carmichael obituary

March 2024

  • Birds fly past Big Ben in London, England

    Concern over rise in requests for UK to share intelligence despite torture risks

  • A Papuan activist holds up a separatist 'Morning Star' flag during a rally near the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. A group of West Papuan students in Indonesia's capital staged the protest against racism and called for independence for their region. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

    Indonesian military apologises after West Papuan man filmed being tortured in water-filled barrel

January 2024

  • Two male prisoners walk down the landing towards to prison officers (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)

    MoJ changes to indefinite jail sentences do not go far enough, says UN expert

    Changes to imprisonment for public protection scheme in England and Wales ‘do not tackle the cases of nearly 1,250 prisoners’

December 2023

  • People walk past a guard tower at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

    Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules

  • Members of the community lay flowers by the side of the road in memory of the asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm Barge on 12 December 2023 in Portland, dorset

    We must not let politics trample on refugees’ human rights

October 2023

  • A former freedom fighter wearing traditional clothing holds a banner during a demonstration ahead of the visit of King Charles to Kenya as activists and former freedom fighters gather in Mau Mau Road, a road named after a group that fought against the colonial rule, in Nairobi on 30 October 2023.

    King Charles asked for ‘unequivocal apology’ by Kenya’s rights commission

    King urged to offer apology while in Kenya for UK’s ‘brutal and inhuman treatment’ during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s
  • Claimants Jane Muthoni Mara, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Paulo Muoka Nzili celebrate in Nairobi after the 2012 high court ruling allowing them to proceed with compensation claims against the UK government.

    King Charles, Britain already admitted to torture in Kenya, no need for you to choke on an apology

    Caroline Elkins
    The monarch will talk vaguely about ‘wrongs’ on his first official visit as head of state to a Commonwealth country. This blindness about the violence of empire must stop

    • Electric cables, hammers and guns: Ukrainians tell of Russian torture

    • UN torture expert accuses private firms of making ever more cruel instruments

    • Syria accused of ‘pervasive’ torture in first global case over civil war

September 2023

  • Family photo of Jagtar Singh Johal.

    UK decides not to call for release of Briton held in India on terror charges

    Public demand for Jagtar Singh Johal to be set free is ‘not in his best interests’, says Asia minister
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