Wolfgang was gentle with me, assuring even. “Your feets are just fine,” he said, his accent thick. “You must trust me about this.” His voice was firm, his head bald. He looked surprisingly like the ...

A Medieval skeleton discovered in Italy has shown "signs of decapitation" and is believed to be the first case of a "torture wheel" in the country. The research, published in the Journal of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police officers played a “wheel of torture” game to have fun and punish criminal suspects during interrogations, including bouts of punching named after boxing star ...

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine human rights officials say they have uncovered a secret detention facility near Manila where police play a "wheel of torture" game to determine how to torture crime ...

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The dismissal of 10 police personnel believed responsible for a “torture roulette” technique at their station in the Philippines province of Laguna has been criticized as overly lenient by rights ...

Under the game, detainees -- mostly suspected drug traffickers -- were punched if the "torture wheel" stopped at "20 seconds Manny Pacman," Pacquiao's nickname, or hung upside down if it stopped at a ...

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Police in the Philippines played "wheel of torture" to dole out punishments to criminal suspects during interrogations, according to country's own Commission on Human Rights. "They do it for fun, it's ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police officers played a “wheel of torture” game to have fun and punish criminal suspects during interrogations, including bouts of punching named after boxing ...

A resident cries as a SWAT member of the Philippine National Police searches for residents who allegedly threw rocks at them as they enforce the demolition of their shanties at the sprawling community ...