Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights ...

China has become a major manufacturer and exporter of torture devices and other cruel and inhumane law enforcement tools, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation say in a report ...

The European Union likes to cast itself as a champion of human rights, both at home and beyond its borders. So why is the E.U. allowing European firms to export thumbscrews, stun guns and other ...

This odd little doohickey is something called the pear. Sounds innocuous enough, right? But, wait. It also looks like Satan’s penis. And that’s pretty much how sadistic 17th-century torturers used the ...