Torture in the United States

Three women activists speak about the torture and humiliation they endured when they dared to challenge the Taliban government

A divorced woman faced a horrifying ordeal when her second husband brutally attacked her in her apartment in Vratsa, Bulgaria. Despite having a restraining order against him, the man waited for her and subjected her to six hours of torture.

Police on Tuesday released a 57-year-old man from custody after clearing him of suspicion of stabbing and injuring his wife in their home in the Piraeus suburb of Nikaia on Monday night.

A 50-year-old man who has allegedly confessed to the murder of his estranged wife in Menidi, eastern Attica, last Thursday, is due to testify to a prosecutor on Monday, after being charged with intentional homicide and illegal use of a weapon on Saturday. 

A prosecutor has filed charges against an unnamed individual over the killing and torture of an eight-year-old Husky named Oliver in the popular winter resort town of Arachova, central Greece, in November last year.

Four border guards from a deportation facility located in northern Athens have appeared before a prosecutor on charges of torture and complicity in torture.

The guards were arrested on Thursday evening at the Amygdaleza pre-departure detention centre following a complaint by a non-national that he had been beaten the day before by uniformed officers.

Human Rights Watch has called on Bulgarian authorities to immediately halt plans to deport Saudi human rights activist Abdulrahman al-Khalidi back to Saudi Arabia. According to the International Human Rights Organization, Al-Khalidi faces serious risks of arbitrary detention, torture, and an unfair trial if sent back.

Two police special guards were arrested on Monday for physically assaulting a man taking part in a far-right demonstration on Sunday in the Athens suburb of Ambelokipi later that night.

The two officers were identified in a video doing the rounds on the internet.

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Athens on Saturday for torturing and abusing a 21-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man who are intellectually disabled, and posting the abuse online.

The suspect, who was arrested by officers from the Anti-Racist Violence Unit, is accused of causing bodily harm, verbal abuse and pimping, as well as breaching the weapons act.

A clandestine facility operated by Turkey’s notorious intelligence agency MIT serves as a hub for arms transfers to jihadist groups & a black site for torture of abducted individuals