Ex-British Consulate staff says Chinese police tortured him

BEIJING (AP) — A former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police trying to extract information about massive anti-government protests in the territory. Simon Cheng said in an online statement and media interviews that he was hooded, beaten,...

Rights group file Syria torture case in Norway

BERLIN (AP) — A human rights group says it has asked Norwegian prosecutors to open a criminal investigation against senior Syrian officials over allegations of torture and crimes against humanity. The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said Tuesday it filed the complaint...

Migrants endure rape and torture on route through Yemen

RAS AL-ARA, Yemen (AP) — Zahra struggled in the blue waters of the Gulf of Aden, grasping for the hands of fellow migrants. Hundreds of men, women and teenagers clambered out of a boat and through the surf, emerging, exhausted, on the shores of Yemen. The 20-year-old Ethiopian saw men armed with automatic...

Migrants endure rape and torture on route through Yemen

RAS AL-ARA, Yemen (AP) — Zahra struggled in the blue waters of the Gulf of Aden, grasping for the hands of fellow migrants. Hundreds of men, women and teenagers clambered out of a boat and through the surf, emerging, exhausted, on the shores of Yemen. The 20-year-old Ethiopian saw men armed with automatic...

AP investigation finds African migrants starved, raped and tortured in Yemeni town that profits from human smuggling

RAS AL-ARA, Yemen (AP) — AP investigation finds African migrants starved, raped and tortured in Yemeni town that profits from human smuggling.

Germany charges 2 suspected former Syrian secret police

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two suspected former members of Syria's secret police with crimes against humanity in a case that human rights campaigners say marks a major step in the fight to hold to account Syrian officials responsible for atrocities in the country's...

Egypt policemen charged in torturing street vendor to death

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors have referred 10 policemen to trial, three years after allegedly torturing a street vendor to death. No date for the trial was mentioned in Monday's announcement. Magdy Maken, a 53-year-old Coptic Christian fish cart vendor, was allegedly killed inside a police station in...

Suburban Chicago man arrested on child pornography charges

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been arrested after police say an investigation revealed that he'd allegedly downloaded videos of young children being sexually abused and tortured. In a news release, The Kane County State's Attorney's Office says 20-year-old David C. Vogt of Elgin has...

Police: Man says he called to house where held against will

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say a man who told them he took an ambulance to escape a house where he was tortured and held against his will said he was called there by his ex-girlfriend who claimed she was being abused. Clearcreek Township police say they recently found the 22-year-old man being...

Distinctive accent on torture video leads police to suspect

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The suspect in a torture killing in Alaska's biggest city ended up leading police right to him, first by losing a digital memory card labeled "Homicide at midtown Marriott" that contained video of the dying woman. Then came an even more innocuous blunder: He spoke on the tape in...