Torture
US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty
Report says thousands of people held in little-reported facilities where authorities are violating human rights on a large scale
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
17, Apr, 2024 @9:01 AM
Keith Carmichael obituary
Human rights campaigner who founded the charity Redress following his unlawful imprisonment and torture in Saudi Arabia
Owen Bowcott
12, Apr, 2024 @8:19 PM
Concern over rise in requests for UK to share intelligence despite torture risks
UK does not ‘solicit, encourage or condone’ inhumane treatment, but critics say ministerial approval system contradicts this
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
27, Mar, 2024 @11:09 PM
Indonesian military apologises after West Papuan man filmed being tortured in water-filled barrel
Footage allegedly filmed during February military raid in Puncak regency renews calls for international intervention in contested region
Warning: this article contains graphic content
Warning: this article contains graphic content
Ben Doherty
25, Mar, 2024 @8:55 PM
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’
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
19, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules
Palestinian national claims British intelligence services asked CIA to put questions to him while he was being tortured in ‘black sites’
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
20, Dec, 2023 @12:43 PM
We must not let politics trample on refugees’ human rights | Letters
Letters: Rev Dr Noel Anthony Davies says Rishi Sunak’s government seems all too willing to breach the principles of the UN’s human rights declaration. Plus letters from Clive Stafford Smith, Jim King and Michael McLoughlin
14, Dec, 2023 @5:57 PM
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
Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi
31, Oct, 2023 @12:00 PM
Electric cables, hammers and guns: Ukrainians tell of Russian torture
As prosecutors prepare war crimes case, victims reveal how they were beaten and made to dig own graves in Balakliia
Lorenzo Tondo in Balaklia
23, Oct, 2023 @11:28 AM
UN torture expert accuses private firms of making ever more cruel instruments
Special rapporteur Alice Edwards presents UN general assembly with list of 20 items she wants to see banned
Chris McGreal in New York
13, Oct, 2023 @2:21 PM
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
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
08, Sep, 2023 @12:03 PM
Foreign Office failed to notice torture of British academic in UAE, watchdog finds
Parliamentary ombudsman says Matthew Hedges was let down by UK government during imprisonment
Rachel Hall and Patrick Wintour
04, Aug, 2023 @10:08 AM
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