Throughout history, people have used torture devices to punish their enemies and those accused of crimes. They’ve also used torture as a means to elicit confessions or convince a victim to give up ...

Few subjects reveal the darker depths of human ingenuity quite like the history of torture. Across thousands of years and dozens of civilizations, people in power devised methods of inflicting ...

Dr. Alice Jill Edwards spends many of her days listening to the testimonies of torture victims. Now the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or ...

Most countries today torture people. Torture is not an “aberration” of “a few bad actors.” It’s an habitual practice in many nations — including the United States. "The Reward of Cruelty," a print ...

A significant number of deaths and disappearances of alleged communists at the hands of the Communist Suppression Operations Command occurred in the southern Thai province of Phattalung. Despite being ...

Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD. A Chicago police badge hangs in front of the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters, ...

Most countries today torture people. Torture is not an “aberration” of “a few bad actors.” It’s a habitual practice in many nations — including the United States. Torture developed as part of the ...