Torture

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March 21, 2024
A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former…
March 20, 2024
A fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Wednesday for his part in the racist torture of two Black men by a…
August 9, 2023
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based…
Crime scene thegrio.com
April 4, 2019
The men reportedly stashed his body of Christopher Dean, 33, in the trunk of a car parked at an Atlanta…
Stewart Weldon thegrio.com
June 2, 2018
An unidentified Massachusetts woman reported to police that she was held against her will, raped, and tortured for a month.
Gavel
March 8, 2018
[griojw id=”AugJho0r” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] A Texas judge is accused of crossing the line after reports surfaced that he ordered a stun
December 17, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned
December 10, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that some of the tactics described in a Senate report on harsh…
October 3, 2014
A former Chicago cop who tortured victims for decades throughout the 1970s and 1980s has been released from prison. Jon…
March 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - New interviews with members of Lupita Nyongo's family reveal that some of the cruelty and agony the…
December 12, 2013
PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — During his more than 30 years behind bars, Stanley Wrice insisted he was innocent, that Chicago…
July 1, 2013
OPINION - The detainees there today are not the first to be held indefinitely there, nor are they the first…
June 6, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The wrinkled faces of the elderly Kenyans who gathered in a downtown Nairobi hotel registered gratitude,…
April 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he's going to try again to close down the prison for terrorist suspects…
June 6, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of Illinois prisoners who claim they confessed to crimes under police torture may never have their…
June 1, 2012
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of inmates at Pelican Bay, a
April 10, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has agreed to answer questions under oath about allegations that he…
February 9, 2012
Denzel Washington is apparently just as tough as he looks. Washington endured slight suffocation while filming a waterboarding scene for…
February 2, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - An inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape could learn…
September 15, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Stanley Wrice, who has been imprisoned for more than 30 years, says officers working for notorious Chicago…