The unbearable atrocities committed by the Assad regime have been exposed, and the opposition forces in the form of the Hayat Tahrir Al Shaam are seeking to rebuild a shattered…
A classified FBI report confirms that US law enforcement has long known of Rwandan intelligence operations against civilians on its soil
Civil society has called for an investigation into King Mswati’s alleged crimes against humanity
Unlike the US, it is not foreigners that are subjected to torture and cruel treatment, but South Africans
In Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe torture is used to extract information, elicit confessions, punish or sometimes for sadistic reasons
The international tribunal is preparing a complaint to the International Criminal Court after concluding that torture and abductions, coinciding with attacks on the judiciary and…
Johannes Mahlangu’s torture by police and charge for a murder he didn’t commit should never have happened
Human Rights Watch has documented cases of Burundian refugees being tortured and forcibly returned by Tanzanian authorities
The deadly institution of the death penalty should be abolished. It undermines humanity and in places where adequate legal representation is inaccessible it is often unjustly…
Tawanda Muchehiwa is one of dozens of Zimbabweans who have been kidnapped and tortured by unidentified armed men
Burundi’s president was a cruel and tyrannical leader under whom no one was safe, not even schoolchildren
International crimes must be prosecuted and domestic jurisdictions are well placed to do this. Domestic prosecutions based on universal jurisdiction are on the rise
After ratifying the optional protocol of the relevant UN convention, South Africa is now in the process establishing a national preventive mechanism for the prevention of torture
Haunting testimonies of LGBTQ Africans appear in a Human Rights Watch report on violations.
A son seeks redemption by testifying against the man who exposed him to the brutality of Argentina’s dark days.
Glebelands Hostel – an apartheid-era relic – has been engulfed in a wave of violence the police have proved unable or unwilling to address.
Inmates want the NPA to tell them why their jailers weren’t prosecuted.
Hunger was a much bigger killer of prisoners under the regime of Chadian ex-dictator Hissene Habre than torture, his war crimes tribunal heard.
Hissene Habre faces charges of torture and crimes against humanity in the first trial of an African leader outside his nation by a continental court.
The Eritrean government may have committed crimes against humanity and was responsible for systematic human rights abuses, cites a UN report.
