All news on the topic: Torture

Norwegian Marius Gustavson, also known as the "eunuch maker", is facing years behind bars alongside several others for carrying out gruesome surgeries, including castration, in his north London flat

Ian MacLeod, 66, and Dean MacLeod, 42, have been jailed for at least 34 years for the savage murder of two men who suffered hundreds of injuries at their hands in Edinburgh

US federal prosecutors charge Michael Macartney, alias 'Torture King' as the ringleader of a global monkey torture network, with further charges against members in the US and UK

The death toll for the horrific concert hall attack in a suburb of Russia's capital Moscow continues to climb and is currently at 137. Four men have so far been charged

Alan Lawson, 36, was discovered with serious injuries after suffering at the hands of a torturer last weekend who stabbed him while he was chained to a radiator in Largs, Scotland

Two teenage girls claim they were kept in isolation cells during their entire stay at a Kentucky detention centre and the song Baby Shark was played in Spanish on repeat

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.

Stephen Dixon, 51, Wayne Butler, 37, pulled out four of the victim's teeth with a door hinge and carved his then girlfriend's name Molly on his forehead with a knife, a court heard

Maya Chavez left the10-year-old with injuries which included a bone sticking out of an unhealed sore and bruises from head to toe. A nurse told Orange County District Attorney's office it was the worst case of trauma and suspected child abuse she had ever seen

A Turkish radio DJ was tortured and killed, then dumped in nearby woodland in a horror case. According to friends, the victim had been acting strangely since he return from holiday in Turkey in summer 2022

A man accused of helping to organise the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been deemed unfit to stand trial after CIA 'torture.' Ramzi bin al-Shibh is being held at Guantanamo Bay

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

WARNING, CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES: Abu Zubaydah, 52, was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and a landmark new report shows the brutal torture he was subject to

The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic

A 13-year-old girl is alleged to have been tortured by three other teenage girls in a sick trap masked as a fake party earlier this month. The girl's mum alleges her daughter was left looking like "her head was going to explode"

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'

The body of Shakira Spencer was found decomposed in her child's bedroom in her flat and it is alleged she was beaten and tortured - at a hearing at the Old Bailey in London today, Lisa Richardson denied murder and preventing a lawful burial