Torture

Accused Sarah Lawrence sex cult leader Larry Ray and his alleged victim-turned-accomplice, Isabella Pollok, will face separate trials over allegations they brainwashed a group of students and made a profit by forcing some into prostitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Three have been arrested for the murder of a man, who was allegedly shot to death after being tortured with weapons like blowtorch and knives, and then forced to walk off cliff.

Police are looking for five absconding men after they were accused of stealing a man’s goat to rape and torture it leading to the animal’s death.

The Syrian born doctor was arrested last year on allegations of making people infertile including the death of one person.

Three unidentified home invaders remain at large after holding a couple hostage and torturing the husband with a scalding hot spoon before stealing his safe during a Bronx home invasion robbery in New York on Sunday.

A man was kidnapped, tortured and choked to death with his own severed tongue. Suspects have been arrested after the victim’s partner managed to escape and report the incident.

One of Higashiomi man Yuki Shimada's seven acquaintances charged over his death has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison, the Otsu District Court upheld on Wednesday.

The man reportedly threatened to kill his wife at one point.

The state of Arizona is moving to use hydrogen cyanide to execute inmates on U.S. soil, recently refurbishing its gas chamber, seven years after the death penalty was suspended in the Republican-controlled state.

Six people have been arrested for viciously raping and torturing a young girl and then recording the video of the assault, which has gone viral on social media, leading to their arrest.

Ninety-three-year-old Connie Tuori was heinously tortured and murdered in her apartment by a 23-year-old assailant in February.

The incident took place in one of the leading NHS hospitals, where doctors insisted that Natalie Titherington put on a mask even as she felt breathless at one point.

The convicted man had been on the run for years while others involved were being put behind bars. Liverpool Magistrates’ Court finally sentenced him for his role in the 2015 gang rape and torture.

“I was told that while he was torturing the boy, other colleagues warned him to release the boy but he refused,” stated Malam Ibrahim Hassan Wuyo, the traditional leader of the community, the Sardauna of Hayin Banki.

China has been believed to be treat Uighur in a different kind of way but a shocking revelation shows that a woman survivor underwent torture and rape.

A cult in Panama killed seven people where five of them were children and one is a pregnant woman. The victims were tortured and hacked with machetes.

The Mexican state of Guerrero is going through mass violence with the discovering of eight decapitated bodies found on the roadside.

"In Mexico the government argues that torture is the exception rather than the norm, but in reality abuse by police and security forces is widespread and goes unpunished," charges a new Amnesty International report.

A Venezuelan general said the 97 soldiers and police officers had not received orders from superiors to attack protesters.

5 inmates at the Guantánamo Bay detention center are being relocated to Uruguay, where they will receive asylum.

A human rights watchdog in Venezuela has already reported 18 possible cases of torture. On Monday, a UN researcher said he had presented two or three reports of "very serious" torture to the Human Rights Council along with a bevy of excessive-force reports.

Police are looking for the person or persons that tortured and mutilated a puppy dog, then dumped her in a park.

"Grand Theft Auto V" is coming under serious fire, human rights group are rallying due to a especially brutal torture scene. During the scene dubbed "By the Book" players must extract teeth and electrocute a captive man.

University of Manchester researcher Dr. Katia Chornik says the regime of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet played music at high volumes for days on end and used other songs as a soundtrack to torture.

One of Mexico's most feared gang of kidnappers used reggaeton and banda music to torture their victims.