14-09-05 Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International. 国际特赦组织的一份新报告显示，严刑拷问在墨西哥仍然很普遍，主要是例行用于逼供。 The report say...

11-04-27 Inspection of medical records, case files, and legal affidavits（宣誓书） provides compelling evidence that medical personnel who treated detainees at Guantnamo Bay (GTMO) failed to inquire and/or document causes of physical injuries and psychologic...

10-07-22 Kenyan judges have awarded 21 former political prisoners almost $500,000 (330,000) between them in compensation for torture they suffered in the 1980s. 肯尼亚法官给予21位前政治犯将近50万美元赔偿金，以补偿他们在上个世纪80年代所受之酷刑。 Daniel Arap...

10-05-27 Amnesty International has criticised the politicisation of international justice in its annual report, which documents torture in 111 countries. 国际特赦组织在其年度报告中批评了政治化的国际正义，该报告记载了111个国家的拷问事件。 The human rights gro...

10-04-21 Argentina's former military ruler Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 25 years for human rights abuses committed almost three decades ago. 阿根廷前军事统治者雷纳尔多比尼奥内因在大约30年前犯下侵犯人权罪而被判刑25年。 Mr Bignone denied the charges...

10-03-12 A senior adviser to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks. 美国前总统布什的一位高级顾问为冷酷的审讯方式进行辩护，称这样做阻止了恐怖分子袭击。 In a BBC intervi...

09-09-23 Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say. 研究人员称，布什执政时期对恐怖主义嫌疑犯使用的拷问手段可能没有效果。 The extreme stress of torture harms the memory Prof...

09-08-14 Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidate has said that some protesters held after last month's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison. 伊朗总统竞选败北的反对党候选人称，上个月具有争议的竞选之时的反抗者有的在监狱中被折磨致死。 Mr Kar...

09-08-03 Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi says opposition detainees put on trial have been subjected to medieval torture. 败北的伊朗总统竞选候选人Mir Hossein Mousavi称在野党被拘留的人被法庭判以中世纪的折磨。 Mousavi said detainees...