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Corridor care is “a type of torture” that is leading to patients dying and causing NHS staff to have nightmares, the UK’s nurses union has warned.In…

The actors Michael Palin, Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley are among 21 well-known figures calling on Keir Starmer to drop plans to weaken human rights law…

Human rights groups have warned UK ministers against weakening protections against torture or other mistreatment for asylum seekers before a crucial European summit this week on…

The UN special rapporteur on torture is being urged to investigate Lebanon’s role in the treatment of the Egyptian-Turkish poet and activist Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi, a dissident…

Most of the bodies of the more than 100 dead Palestinians Israel released remain unidentified.They were sent back to Gaza with numbers instead of their names,…

Mehran Tamadon’s probing film operates a kind of dialogue with his related documentary My Worst Enemy, as it creates sequences in which victims of abuse by…

One night, I heard a dripping tap. I asked my husband to check all the taps – upstairs bathroom, downstairs toilet, the kitchen. He assured me…

Nicola Sturgeon has described the time she faced criminal investigation over her ex-husband’s alleged fraudulent activities as “like a form of mental torture”.In an excerpt from…