Electric shock therapy and torture are some of the allegations uncovered by the Wits Justice Project at the Mangaung Correctional Facility.
Claims of torture in Mangaung prison will be investigated, says Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.
‘You say Zanu-PF kills? It doesn’t. It destroys’ – video of intimidation, and testimonies of threats and beatings.
Allegations of inmates being force-fed in Guantánamo reveal Obama and Cameron have been talking a lot and doing very little to close the facility.
We talk about how concerns for public safety are overriding personal freedoms in the US, and what this means in SA where police misconduct is rife.
African human right’s groups need to ramp up their role in monitoring and preventing abuse.
Paul Motshabi was badly beaten by the AWB in 1996. Now he lives quietly in the township of Makokskraal.
General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran Colonel James Steele were behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse.
South Africans were horrified when footage surfaced showing police handcuffing a man to a police vehicle and dragging him about 400m down the street.
News that Daveyton police beat and dragged a man behind a police van has sickened South Africans. But police torture of civilians is nothing new.
Gordhan’s budget speech, the meat scandal arrives on SA shores and the new goat viral videos hits the internet. Watch Weekend 101 to stay in the know.
Most people think of the dark days of apartheid or the scenes from Abu Ghraib. But torture is right here at home, writes Thalia Holmes.
In 1998, South Africa signed the UN Convention against Torture. In so doing, the country undertook to take internal measures to prevent torture.
Former detainees have identified the locations, agencies, torture methods and commanders responsible for rights abuses in Syria to Human Rights Watch.
Prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane appears to be at the centre of a bid to thwart the prosecution in SA of Zim officials accused of torture.
South Africa’s failure to criminalise torture in domestic law leaves many citizens vulnerable to gross human rights abuses while in state custody.
Another dissident critic of President Robert Mugabe was arrested, while police defied a court order to give medical help to 12 others, lawyers say.
A freelance Zimbabwean photojournalist was released on Tuesday after spending a night in police cells for filming prisoners outside a court.
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/ 27 November 2009
Torture is a criminal offence, prohibited under various international treaties — but not under South African law.
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/ 28 October 2009
Zimbabwe has withdrawn an unprecedented invitation to a UN independent expert on torture at the last moment, the UN said on Wednesday.
Sleep deprivation, ”insult slaps”, water dousing and slamming a detainee’s head against a wall were techniques used by CIA interrogators.
The US Justice Department has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, which could expose CIA employees to prosecution.
CIA interrogators carried out mock executions and threatened an al-Qaeda commander with a gun and an electric drill, according to an internal report.
A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia’s government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday.
President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to release photos showing abuse of "war on terror" detainees.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire over whether she has long known about harsh interrogation tactics used in Bush’s ”war on terror”.
The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times on two people suggests that Bush officials lied when they said its use was strictly controlled.
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/ 23 February 2009
Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held at Guantánamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to home on Monday.
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/ 22 November 2008
A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.
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/ 10 November 2008
China defended itself against allegations of torture before a UN watchdog on Monday, saying it had ”zero tolerance” for abuses in its police stations.
Kenya police have detained a pathologist hired by the state-run rights watchdog to probe claims that security forces tortured civilians.
Coney Island, the quaintly rotting amusement park frequented by millions of New Yorkers every summer, has acquired a new attraction.