The Justice Department published a revised and expansive definition late yesterday of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly repudiating one of the most criticized ...

WASHINGTON — The question Democratic senators put to Condoleezza Rice last week seemed easy enough to answer: Did the secretary of State nominee consider interrogation practices such as ...

A new definition of torture has led to asylum seekers fleeing persecution being wrongly detained in UK immigration centres, the High Court has been told. A senior judge heard accusations individuals ...

For nearly two decades, efforts to prosecute the men accused of helping carry out the September 11 terrorist attacks have gone nowhere. But now the process is accelerating. Now we want to turn to one ...

Two South Florida migrant detention facilities have engaged in treatment that Amnesty International says could amount to torture and violate international human rights standards, according to a report ...

I don't know if water-boarding is torture, or not. I do know that what certain Democrat senators are doing to judge Michael Mukasey constitutes torture by anyone's definition. Do they enjoy this? Are ...