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.

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 ...

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 ...

A prisoner jailed for plotting to torture and cannibalize children in his homemade dungeon is asking to be released due to the risk of contracting COVID-19. Geoffrey Portway is in a Virginia federal ...

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 ...

During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and perform executions. Some methods were considerably crueler than others — these 10 being ...

Medieval contraptions and torture devices are on view at the new LA museum. (all photos courtesy the Medieval Torture Museum) “The Medieval Torture Museum is meant to feed off the emotions of people ...

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.

A new device developed for use in the fight against the “global obesity epidemic” prevents its user from opening their mouth wide enough to eat solid foods. According to a Fox News report, the new ...