torture
Human Rights Watch: Children in Egypt tortured in detention
March 23, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing Egypt of arresting and torturing children as young as 12. A report from the international rights...
End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange
By Stephen Frost, Lissa Johnson
Jill Stein, William Frost
on behalf of 117 signatories
February 17, 2020
On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60...
‘US is torturing Chelsea Manning’: Top UN official says her treatment...
31 Dec, 2019
Chelsea Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, constituting torture by the US government over her refusal to testify...
Torturing and Exterminating Assange to terrorize journalists around the globe
US wants to 'make an example' of Assange in jail, UN expert claims
By Nick Miller
July 28, 2019
The United States government has promised that Julian...
‘Assange case is unlike anything I’ve seen in 20yrs of work...
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer about his assessment of Julian Assange’s condition. He says...
Refugees in Libya ‘tortured’ for breaking out of detention centre
Nearly 150 detainees broke out of their cell in Tripoli's Triq al Sikka earlier this week to protest against abuse.
by Sally Hayden
2 Mar 2019
As...
After Mattis’s Resignation, a President Unbound
By Mark Landler
December 21, 2018
For most of his tumultuous 23 months in office, President Trump has tried to shake off anyone who would restrain...
Egypt’s military junta condemns 75 coup protesters to death
30 July 2018
A Cairo court referred 75 defendants to Egypt’s grand mufti to approve death by hanging sentences on Saturday. The 75 are all...
Ecuador’s Ex-President Rafael Correa Denounces Treatment of Julian Assange as “Torture”
By Glenn Greenwald
May 16 2018
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, in an exclusive interview with The Intercept on Wednesday morning, denounced his country’s current government for blocking Julian...