News of torture

UN committee releases damning report on human rights abuses in Venezuela

24-09-2022 08:00 Human rights watchdogs call for increased international pressure on government in Caracas following damning United Nations report; Pressure grows on Argentina to revise relations with Maduro administration.

by Sam Forster

Human Rights

Giovanola, one of the founders of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, has died

20-07-2022 15:42 Delia Cecilia Giovanola, a founding member of the Grandmothers of the Plaza del Mayo who searched for their disappeared children, died last Monday. Subject of a famous photograph in which she protested during the dictatorship, she succeeded in finding her grandson.

OBITUARY

Miguel Etchecolatz, unrepentant dictatorship-era torturer and killer, dies at 93

03-07-2022 15:06 Former Buenos Aires provincial police chief, recipient of nine life sentences for crimes against humanity dating back to Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship, dies aged 93.

RIO RAIDS

Shock over Brazil police 'torture, executions' in drug raid

27-05-2022 08:37 Bodies from a Rio de Janeiro police raid show signs of torture and summary execution, lawyers allege.

Human rights

Etchecolatz handed ninth life sentence for dictatorship-era crimes

14-05-2022 09:18 Former deputy Buenos Aires provincial police chief Miguel Etchecolatz was given ninth life sentence for crimes against humanity on Friday.

MALVINAS: 40 YEARS ON

New charges added to Armed Forces torture case during Malvinas war

01-04-2022 21:49 Argentine Federal Prosecutor’s Office adds sexual harassment and anti-Semitism charges to the case against military officers for the torture of their own soldiers during the Malvinas War.

HUMAN RIGHTS

China's Uyghur population control was 'genocide,' concludes report

10-12-2021 12:49 China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population, an unofficial tribunal probing alleged human rights abuses has concluded.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups rename street at ex-ESMA for disappeared

04-09-2021 10:35 Government and human rights organisations rename street at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School to remember those disappeared at the hands of Argentina's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court sentences duo to more than 20 years in jail for rape of prisoners at ESMA

13-08-2021 21:01 Two already convicted human rights offenders from the 1976-1983 military dictatorship receive additional sentences for sexual crimes committed at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School.

PROTESTS IN COLOMBIA

Rights groups urge UN to condemn 'oppression' of Colombia protests

01-07-2021 08:20 UN Human Rights Council urged to condemn the "brutal oppression" of protesters in Colombia, as groups call for an independent investigation.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Slow justice for women abused by Chile's dictatorship

05-03-2021 12:22 More than 40,000 people were tortured and another 3,200 were murdered or disappeared in the 17 years of Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990), which savaged women, making them victims of aberrant methods of torture specially focused on sexual violence.