The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued notice to the Jharkhand Government over the torture and parading of a tribal girl on the diktat of a village Panchayat in Palamu district.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that most oppressive nations around the world are growing even more dire. "Governments in many parts of the world continue to target religious minorities using a host of methods, including torture, beatings, unlawful surveillance, and so-called re-educa
"We asked him if he was tortured. He said he had been experiencing pain in his heart since morning," one of his lawyers was quoted by the PTI as saying.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, while denying reports of Rangers personnel torturing Imran Khan during his arrest, has said that "no sort of torture was inflicted on him," reported Geo News.
After the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, his barrister Ali Gohar alleged that Khan was beaten and sustained injuries and he (Gohar) too was tortured. Gohar also said that the former PM was kicked by the Rangers on his leg which was injured by a bullet earl
"At first, they (the doctor couple) said that the girl is their own child, but during the investigation, we found that she was not their child and they adopted her. When we rescued the minor girl, we also found several injuries, and burn marks on her body. The minor girl also told us that sh
As per details, three robbers were caught red-handed by the outrageous crowd in Orangi Town's Sector 14C. Two were tortured to death while one managed to escape.
The 40-year-old said the torture only stopped when he agreed to record a video pledging to stop criticising the powerful Pakistani military and the pro-government terrorists that are allegedly on its payroll.
In a shocking incident, a group of villagers of a remote village in Assam's Sonitpur district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border physically tortured four fellow villagers and branded them as practising witchcraft, police said on Tuesday.
he said, "Central agencies are lying to courts against us in the liquor policy probe. Arrested people are being tortured, pressure is being created on them to nail us."