Tortured With Cigarettes

A woman was arrested after she allegedly tried to kill her husband by tying his hands and legs, burning him with cigarettes and strangulating him, police said on Tuesday.

Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention.

Beaten, burnt with cigarettes, and locked in darkness for days - the horrific abuse of a minor girl working as domestic help for a family in Maharashtra's Nagpur has shocked neighbours.

A 42 year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three persons who entered her home, attacked her with a sharp weapon and gave her burn injuries on her private parts with cigarettes, a Mumbai police official said on Sunday.

The family of a 12-year-old autistic boy in Coimbatore has filed a complaint with the police and the district administration after locals repeatedly tortured the boy.

A five-year-old girl who was tortured by her father and burnt with cigarettes was on Sunday rescued by police and sent to a Childline home in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. The father has been arrested.

The official behind the home ministry affidavits that have fuelled a fresh political battle over the Ishrat Jehan case has alleged that he was tortured with cigarette butts and hounded by the CBI almost to the point that he wanted to quit.

The body of an Italian student who went missing in Cairo was found half naked by the roadside with cigarette burns and other signs of torture, a senior Egyptian prosecutor said today.

At 13, she was kidnapped, gang-raped and tortured with lit cigarettes. Nine years on, she is still wading through court hearings, seeking punishment for the man who, along with five others, allegedly sexually assaulted her inside a moving car in Lucknow.

A six-year-old boy was allegedly singed with cigarette butts and slashed with a shaving blade by his father who inflicted injuries all over his body.

A three-year-old boy, badly battered and bruised, is battling for his life at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Jodhpur's Ummaid hospital. He has multiple fractures in his hand and legs, cigarette burn and human bite marks all over his body, and is suffering from malnutrition. His mother, who brought the boy to the hospital, claims he was tortured b...

A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather allegedly put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said on Friday.

Actor Darshan has given the Kannada film industry some of its biggest hits - Kalasipalya and Kariya, for example. Last week, he was arrested after he pulled a gun on his wife, Vijayalakshmi, who has accused him of torture which included beating her with a slipper and burning her with cigarette stubs.

A three-year-old has been hospitalized in Mumbai with burns from cigarettes and a hot knife. His aunts allegedly tortured him before leaving him outside the home of other relatives.  Faisal's parents divorced a few years ago and after his mother remarried last year, he has been living with his father's sisters.It's not yet clear why his aunts ...

After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his clothes and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the pipe.

A woman was arrested after she allegedly tried to kill her husband by tying his hands and legs, burning him with cigarettes and strangulating him, police said on Tuesday.

Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention.

Beaten, burnt with cigarettes, and locked in darkness for days - the horrific abuse of a minor girl working as domestic help for a family in Maharashtra's Nagpur has shocked neighbours.

A 42 year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three persons who entered her home, attacked her with a sharp weapon and gave her burn injuries on her private parts with cigarettes, a Mumbai police official said on Sunday.

The family of a 12-year-old autistic boy in Coimbatore has filed a complaint with the police and the district administration after locals repeatedly tortured the boy.

A five-year-old girl who was tortured by her father and burnt with cigarettes was on Sunday rescued by police and sent to a Childline home in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. The father has been arrested.

The official behind the home ministry affidavits that have fuelled a fresh political battle over the Ishrat Jehan case has alleged that he was tortured with cigarette butts and hounded by the CBI almost to the point that he wanted to quit.

The body of an Italian student who went missing in Cairo was found half naked by the roadside with cigarette burns and other signs of torture, a senior Egyptian prosecutor said today.

At 13, she was kidnapped, gang-raped and tortured with lit cigarettes. Nine years on, she is still wading through court hearings, seeking punishment for the man who, along with five others, allegedly sexually assaulted her inside a moving car in Lucknow.

A six-year-old boy was allegedly singed with cigarette butts and slashed with a shaving blade by his father who inflicted injuries all over his body.

A three-year-old boy, badly battered and bruised, is battling for his life at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Jodhpur's Ummaid hospital. He has multiple fractures in his hand and legs, cigarette burn and human bite marks all over his body, and is suffering from malnutrition. His mother, who brought the boy to the hospital, claims he was tortured b...

A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather allegedly put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said on Friday.

Actor Darshan has given the Kannada film industry some of its biggest hits - Kalasipalya and Kariya, for example. Last week, he was arrested after he pulled a gun on his wife, Vijayalakshmi, who has accused him of torture which included beating her with a slipper and burning her with cigarette stubs.

A three-year-old has been hospitalized in Mumbai with burns from cigarettes and a hot knife. His aunts allegedly tortured him before leaving him outside the home of other relatives.  Faisal's parents divorced a few years ago and after his mother remarried last year, he has been living with his father's sisters.It's not yet clear why his aunts ...

After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his clothes and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the pipe.