WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. public remains split on the use of torture in questioning suspected terrorists, a poll released Friday indicates.
JERUSALEM, May 30 (UPI) -- A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel found there is "no effective barrier" to torture in the country and detailed nine alleged cases.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch said there is widespread and systematic use of torture in Russian detention facilities in Chechnya.
LONDON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch Friday accused Britain of trying to undermine the global ban on torture even as it proclaims its opposition to torture.
KHATMANDU, Nepal, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has arrived in Nepal to investigate reports of human rights violations there.
NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- A consortium of human rights groups called Thursday for the global end of transferring suspects for interrogation to countries where torture is condoned.
TBILISI, Georgia, April 13 (UPI) -- The Human Rights Watch group said Wednesday torture goes unpunished in the former Soviet state of Georgia even after the so-called "Rose Revolution."
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Mexico's Congress is being urged to approve a pending justice reform bill's anti-torture provisions, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Dec. 6 (UPI) --
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Medical experts estimate there are as many as 100 million victims of torture worldwide with about 400,000 torture survivors living in the United States -- almost all of whom need medical and psychological care.
