No terrain is more difficult to defend than the moral high ground. As a rule, however, America has done a decent job of it. We are not the sort of people who use torture, nuclear weapons or cluster ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

THEY tortured them in the most brutal ways in order to capture the world’s worst terrorist. But a new probe says they put them through hell for nothing. Sounds extreme but these “techniques” were part ...

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 ...