Ruhi Jahanpour is a survivor of religious persecution in Iran. On a recent visit to Dublin, she spoke to Áine Lawlor about her experience of torture and imprisonment. She told a harrowing story, ...

Three Iranian women are spreading awareness at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit on their shared prisoner-of-conscience experiences and empowering others to take action. The IRF Summit ...

You may not want to use these words in polite company until you know what they mean. Colonial leader Captain John Smith used this word in his journal in 1606. Native American tribes in Virginia used ...

The CEO of a B.C. health agency has been dismissed on the same day as the release of a report prompted by concerns about spending by the Provincial Services Health Authority. The board of directors of ...

A Taipei-based dominatrix, who goes by the alias “Wang Hsiao-hsin (王小欣),” has lifted the veilon her experiences and the services she is asked to perform by clients. Bastinado (whipping a client’s feet ...

Spanking has been a popular activity in the bedroom for centuries. It was mentioned in the ‘Harris’ list of Covent Garden Ladies’ (a Georgian review of prostitutes in London), with one practitioner ...

Bastinado is certainly something to be cautious about. It is a particularly popular form of torture outside of the bedroom because it doesn’t leave a lot of marks but generates a shitload of pain and ...