Police in the US city of Chicago have arrested five people after the torture of a young man was live-streamed on Facebook.
India’s foreign ministry has complained to Saudi Arabian authorities after the arm of a 58-year-old Indian woman was allegedly chopped off by her employer in Riyadh.
A mobile phone video has emerged online that appears to show Islamic State (IS) militants torturing and abusing a 14-year-old Syrian boy.
The report published by the al-Sweady Inquiry has found that charges of murder levelled at a number of British troops by Iraqi prisoners were “without foundation”, but that nonetheless there were instances of ill-treatment at Camp Abu Naji, near Basra in southern Iraq in May 2004.
The Assad regime have detained more than 215,000 Syrians since the uprising began in 2012, according to a new report.