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Two teenage girls who tortured and murdered a vulnerable woman while posing for Snapchat selfies will NEVER be named after winning High Court bid to keep their identities secret because they could be attacked on the street The teenage girls were 13 and 14 when they killed 39-year-old Angela Wrightson The put the vulnerable woman … Read more
Christian nurse is ‘tied up and tortured by mob at Pakistani hospital after Muslim colleague falsely accused her of blasphemy’ Nurse Tabitha Nazir Gill, 30, reportedly attacked by mob at hospital she works at She challenged a coworker for breaking rules and accepting money from patient Muslim coworker then accused her of blasphemy and angry … Read more
Christian nurse is ‘tied up and tortured by mob at Pakistani hospital after Muslim colleague falsely accused her of blasphemy’ Nurse Tabitha Nazir Gill, 30, reportedly attacked by mob at hospital she works at She challenged a coworker for breaking rules and accepting money from patient Muslim coworker then accused her of blasphemy and angry … Read more
A dissident who claims he was tortured by Iran demanded the release of imprisoned British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he was convicted of trying to torch a diplomatic car outside the Iranian Embassy. IT professional Sam Parsa, 60, was accused of planting a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of … Read more
Wealthy Saudi princes were tortured, blackmailed and ordered to hand over money from Swiss bank deposits on the ‘night of the beating’ three years ago when crown prince Mohammed bin Salman purged the Saudi elite, according to a new account. The November 2017 round-up at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh was officially described as a … Read more
Russia’s ‘sausage king’ is tortured to death after being shot with a crossbow while relaxing in a sauna with his girlfriend Vladimir Marugov, 54, was tortured for an hour on a family estate near Moscow He had been relaxing in the sauna with girlfriend Sabina Gaziyeva, who escaped Marugov, who was going through a divorce, owned … Read more
Torture, humiliation and coerced confessions are rampant in North Korea’s pretrial detention system which treats people as worth ‘less than an animal’, a rights group said on Monday in a report on the country’s opaque legal processes. US-based Human Rights Watch drew on interviews with dozens of former North Korean detainees and officials to highlight … Read more
A female farmer has been sexually assaulted and strangled to death while another rural worker has been tortured and murdered in the latest attacks on South Africa’s white farmers. Divorcee Chantel Kershaw, 44, was ambushed by two armed black men while working her land in Delmas east of Johannesburg on Wednesday. Kershaw’s underwear was ripped … Read more
‘Innocent’ trucker is tortured and bludgeoned to death by vigilante parents after girls ‘lied that he had touched them “below the waist” while giving them a lift’ in Russia A girl said Russian Dmitry Chikvarkin, 48, had touched her and a three-year-old The truck driver had given a lift to the two children at the … Read more
Two teenage boys are tortured, raped and then buried alive in a cemetery in Sweden before passer-by discovers and rescues them The boys were set upon at around 11pm on Saturday evening in Solna, Sweden They were forcefully taken into a cemetery where they were allegedly assaulted The perpetrators then allegedly buried their victims alive … Read more