Torture Coverage

3 Sampson men each sentenced to at least 22 years in prison for torture, kidnapping

Three Sampson County men were sentenced to a total of 76 years (916 months) in prison, collectively, for the kidnapping and torture of two people, one of whom was a minor.

Jailers charged in 'Baby Shark' torture

Oklahoma detention officers accused of forcing inmates to listen to popular children's song for hours at a time while handcuffed and standing in isolation booths.

Psychologist who waterboarded for CIA to testify at Guantánamo

On Tuesday, James Mitchell is scheduled to walk into the military courtroom at Guantánamo Bay where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men are charged with helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Carol Rosenberg, New York Times

An illustrated first-person guide to the CIA's torture program

The Guantánamo Bay prisoner known as Abu Zubaydah sketched self-portraits of the torture he was subjected to during the four years he was held in secret prisons by the CIA. They are gritty and highly personal depictions that put flesh, bones and emotion on what until now had sometimes been portrayed in popular culture in sanitized or inaccurate ways: the so-called enhanced interrogations techniques used by the United States in secret overseas prisons during a feverish pursuit of al-Qaida after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Carol Rosenberg, New York Times

Jamal Khashoggi died in fistfight at Istanbul consulate, Saudi Arabia claims

Saudi Arabia has admitted the death of missing Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, claiming he died in a fistfight involving more than a dozen Saudi officials at the country's consulate in Istanbul.

By Euan McKirdy, Sarah Sirgany and Clarissa Ward, CNN