Torture In ‘Psychiatric Unit’: Student Who Stripped In Protest To Iran’s Dress Code, Right Group Says

08 Nov 2024

In a troubling turn of events, a female university student from Iran, Ahoo Daryaei, has been admitted to a psychiatric facility after a video of her walking around in her underwear at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran went viral. The video, which showed her defying the university's strict dress...

‘Goonda Raj’ going on: Congress allege police torture

02 Apr 2023

On Sunday, the Congress party in Kerala claimed that there has been police 'Goonda Raj going on in Kochi after a young person was taken to the hospital for possible police torture. The Congress MLA, Uma Thomos, and other members of the District Congress Committee paid the victim a visit...

63 tortured bodies found in Ukrainian district Kherson

17 Nov 2022

Investigators have found 63 remains with evidence of torture in the recently freed southern Ukrainian district of Kherson, the country's interior minister was cited as saying early on Thursday. "Now, 63 bodies have been discovered in Kherson region, but we must understand that the search has only just started so...

Rape victim reportedly brutalised by in-laws after failing in chastity test

05 Sep 2022

In Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, a 24-year-old bride was allegedly tortured, beaten, and forced to take a chastity (virginity) test. The Khap panchayat also imposed a 10 lakh penalty on the rape survivor’s family after she failed the test. The survivor is from the Sansi tribe, where the Kukadi pratha (virginity...