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 ...

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.

China has become a major manufacturer and exporter of torture devices and other cruel and inhumane law enforcement tools, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation say in a report ...

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 ...

This odd little doohickey is something called the pear. Sounds innocuous enough, right? But, wait. It also looks like Satan’s penis. And that’s pretty much how sadistic 17th-century torturers used the ...