Woodling was one of the most notorious torture methods used by pirates. What did it involve and when was it used? What made ...

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, ...

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Why do I study the history of contemporary political violence in Mexico? My answer has evolved across time. At first, I wanted to offer a basic accounting of what had happened: the who, what, where, ...

Europeans were creative when it came to torture. They developed some of the most excruciating and slowest methods of torture in history, including the horrific blood eagle torture method. But one of ...

It's clear throughout history that the human mind lacks no ingenuity when it comes to thinking up hideous ways to torture or kill people. But this may be the worst in the history books. Rumoured to ...

Horrific details of Russian torture methods are being revealed through a new report set to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council. Methods of torture used by Russia today are reportedly very ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Houshang Asadi is an equal opportunity torture victim. He was tortured under the Shah and tortured again after Iran's Islamic Revolution. He still feels the pain, every night. Now ...