Medical oddities are among the new items on exhibit in The Soul Asylum museum in downtown Alton. The old and the new: A witch about to be burned at the stake, a remnant of the old torture devices ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A collection of torture devices used in the 16th and 17th centuries will be sold in New York City with some of the proceeds going to charities campaigning for a ban on torture.

The European Union likes to cast itself as a champion of human rights, both at home and beyond its borders. So why is the E.U. allowing European firms to export thumbscrews, stun guns and other ...

It started with a noise, a Los Angeles Times article explained, not the hum of traffic passing under the freeway overpass, ...

Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights ...