Latest articles on Torture

The brutal abduction caught on camera in Zimbabwe

Africa Kudzai Mashininga - 13 Sep 2020

Tawanda Muchehiwa is one of dozens of Zimbabweans who have been kidnapped and tortured by unidentified armed men

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Remembering the cruelty of strongman Nkurunziza and his regime

Africa Aanu Adeoye - 10 Jun 2020

Burundi’s president was a cruel and tyrannical leader under whom no one was safe, not even schoolchildren

Zimbabwe: What is the current status of the Torture Docket case?

Africa Atilla Kisla - 23 May 2020

International crimes must be prosecuted and domestic jurisdictions are well placed to do this. Domestic prosecutions based on universal jurisdiction are on the rise

Introducing South Africa’s mechanism for the prevention of torture

Article Kwanele Pakati & Chris Nissen - 4 May 2020

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

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African states biggest culprits of forced anal testing to ‘prove’ homosexuality

Article Carl Collison - 28 Feb 2017

Haunting testimonies of LGBTQ Africans appear in a Human Rights Watch report on violations.

My shame: My father, a monster

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Oct 2016

A son seeks redemption by testifying against the man who exposed him to the brutality of Argentina’s dark days.

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Torture and the culture of fear in a ‘free’ South Africa

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Jun 2016

Glebelands Hostel – an apartheid-era relic – has been engulfed in a wave of violence the police have proved unable or unwilling to address.

Prisoners’ claims of torture ignored

Article Phillip De Wet - 27 May 2016

Inmates want the NPA to tell them why their jailers weren’t prosecuted.

Victims of Habre’s Chad were starved, trial hears

Africa Staff Reporter - 14 Sep 2015

Hunger was a much bigger killer of prisoners under the regime of Chadian ex-dictator Hissene Habre than torture, his war crimes tribunal heard.

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Chad’s torture victims seek justice in trial of Hissene Habre

Africa Staff Reporter - 20 Jul 2015

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.

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Eritrea ‘tortured, enforced child labour’ – UN report

Africa Staff Reporter - 9 Jun 2015

The Eritrean government may have committed crimes against humanity and was responsible for systematic human rights abuses, cites a UN report.

Amnesty: Europe must admit to co-operation in CIA torture

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jan 2015

Amnesty International is calling on European countries to come clean on their assistance with CIA operations so that justice can be served.

World leaders outraged by CIA torture report

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Dec 2014

Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.

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US Senate report confirms torture does not work

Article Julian Borger - 11 Dec 2014

The Senate report on CIA detention and interrogation found that detainees subjected to torture produced no intelligence or "fabricated information".

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Afghan president: No justification for CIA’s inhumane torture

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Dec 2014

Ashraf Ghani has condemned the CIA torture detailed in a US Senate report, saying there can be "no justification for these kinds of actions".

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