News of torture

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.

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.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Government’s approach to Venezuela crisis falls under spotlight

03-10-2020 09:54 Argentina's Ambassador to the OAS Carlos Raimuni sparks controversy with criticism and pushback after criticising UN report on human rights violations in Venezuela.

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Moisés Naím: 'Argentina is a world champion in political necrophilia'

03-10-2020 08:59 Arguably Venezuela’s most influential intellectual speaks about the crisis facing his country and the lessons it could teach other nations in the region: not to fall for the facile discourse of charlatans and to pay attention to sleeping authoritarianism in society.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Experts cite 'crimes against humanity' in Maduro's Venezuela

16-09-2020 15:25 Independent experts for UN's top human rights body accuse Maduro administration of torture and killings, claiming security forces have used techniques like electric shocks, genital mutilation and asphyxiation against detainees.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Uruguayan Army colonel killed ‘in several countries’ during dictatorship

03-09-2020 00:40 Army colonel imprisoned for crimes during Uruguay’s 1973-1985 dictatorship admitted to killing and torturing detainees, as well as confirming existence of clandestine death flight in Argentina, according to official documents.

POLICE BRUTALITY

Complaint filed after 17-year-old 'tortured with cattle prod' by police officers

31-07-2020 01:57 Members of Buenos Aires provincial force formally denounced by rights group for allegedly beating up a 17-year-old youth and torturing him with an electric cattle prod.