MADISON HTS, Mich. (FOX 2) – A 31-year-old Detroit man could spend the rest of his life in prison after he was charged with 9 felonies including torture and human trafficking of two different victims. Kevin Johnson, 31, was arrested late last week and arraigned in Madison Heights. According to a release from police, the […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — United Nations special representatives on human rights have called on Belarusian authorities to investigate the torture and deaths of political prisoners. A report produced by the UN special rapporteur for Belarus says five people who have died in custody in Belarus were convicted on politically motivated charges. The report noted that […]
Tammie Doreen Howard was last heard from on Dec. 24, 2016. Court heard Monday that Howard was the victim of a brutal killing on Christmas Day 2016. (Calgary Police Service – image credit) WARNING: The details in this article are graphic and violent. One of the people responsible for torturing and killing a Calgary woman […]
Tammie Doreen Howard was last heard from on Dec. 24, 2016. Court heard Monday that Howard was the victim of a brutal killing on Christmas Day 2016. (Calgary Police Service – image credit) WARNING: The details in this article are graphic and violent. One of the people responsible for torturing and killing a Calgary woman […]
A middle school assistant principal in Alabama and three other men have been charged with murder in connection with the torture and killing of three people in 2013, Georgia deputies said. Keante Harris is an assistant principal at McAdory Middle School in the Birmingham area. “At this time we still are gathering facts about the […]
A Mississippi Coast man is headed to death row for his role in the beating and suffocation death of his 2-year-old stepson — all because the toddler soiled his diaper and took too long to get a juice box out of the refrigerator. A jury in Harrison County Circuit Court in Biloxi deliberated for just […]
Domingo Flores laughed when Anaheim police officers visited his apartment to check on his 10-year-old daughter. The officers didn’t know it, but the girl was zip-tied to a bed in a back room at the time, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. For years, the girl’s father and stepmother, Mayra Chavez, tortured the […]
Amy Duggar King said her cousin Josh Duggar, who is serving prison time on charges related to child sex abuse images, deserves his fate. “I hope every day there is absolute torture for him,” King told People. “I really hope that, because what he watched and what he was viewing for his own fulfillment is […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose police on Thursday announced the arrest of three people suspected in a kidnap and torture case earlier this year. Investigators said the kidnapping happened on Feb. 13 when a man was held in the 2600 block of Million Court. “Multiple suspects held the victim against his will and tortured […]
A ringleader in a global monkey torture network exposed by the BBC has been charged by US federal prosecutors. Michael Macartney, 50, who went by the alias “Torture King”, was charged in Virginia with conspiracy to create and distribute animal-crushing videos. Mr Macartney was one of three key distributors identified by the BBC Eye team […]
(Reuters) – Russia’s commissioner for human rights has called the use of torture against detainees unacceptable, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. She was speaking after the publication of videos showing the interrogation of suspects in last week’s attack at the Crocus City concert hall near Moscow that killed at least 139 people and […]
MOSCOW/DUSHANBE (Reuters) – Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday’s mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to Tajikistan to question the families of four men charged with carrying out the attack. Eight suspects have now been remanded in pre-trial detention since gunmen sprayed concertgoers […]