When President Reagan vetoed the renewal of the Clean Water Act a second time, he might as well have hung a sign around his neck that said, "Hit Me."
Wendy Rachelle Osborn, the 14-year-old Placentia girl whose body was found in the Chino Hills, had been strangled, sexually assaulted and possibly tortured with a pair of pliers, San Bernardino County Coroner Brian McCormick said Tuesday.
Torture gets a new twist in "The Chamber of Little Ease," a new drama by Bayard Johnson, opening this weekend at the Powerhouse.
A white doctor Thursday accused South African police of continuing to torture black prisoners
In the year since the discovery of a mass graveyard in a remote hideaway in the Sierra Nevada, forensic pathologists still are trying to determine how many people were murdered and who they were.
Security forces in Afghanistan frequently torture political prisoners and Soviet personnel often watch, Amnesty International said today.
Lawyers for more than 50 students arrested in anti-government demonstrations last week accused police Wednesday of torturing some of them and failing to tell families their whereabouts.
Navy "torture ship" to participate in the July 4 Liberty Weekend celebration in New York City.
officials after his entire Cabinet offered to quit over a police torture case.
A man charged with murder after police found half-naked women shackled in his basement and body parts in his freezer tried to hang himself in a jail shower during the night, authorities said today.
A Huntington Park teen-ager Wednesday identified in court two of that city's police officers as the ones who shocked him at least eight times with an electric "stun gun" to force a confession.
Two Haitian journalists released after a two-week detention last week charged that police tortured them in efforts to extract the names of their sources in the political opposition.
Ecuador has become the 21st nation to sign an international convention against torture, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday.
Relatives of 14 people held without charges have accused South Korean police of using torture to
A 17-year-old boy testified in Los Angeles Municipal Court on Wednesday that two former Huntington Park police officers jolted him eight times with an electric stun gun last November in an attempt to force him to admit he had stolen some stereo parts.
Each year about 24,000 bulls die in Spanish bullrings with a sword plunged into their hearts.
A Salvadoran refugee who testified that he was tortured by his country's security forces was the lead-off witness Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether U.S. immigration authorities should inform all illegals from El Salvador of their right to apply for political asylum in this country.
Two former Huntington Park police officers were bound over to Superior Court on Thursday to stand trial on charges that they tortured a teen-age youth with an electric stun gun.
There was a time when anything was possible in this remote country in the heart of Africa, if only Jean-Bedel Bokassa wanted it.
A Salvadoran refugee who testified that he was tortured by his country's security forces was the leadoff witness Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether U.S. immigration authorities should inform all illegal aliens from El Salvador of their right to apply for political asylum in this country.