Police in Mexico have detained an Argentine national suspected of being a fugitive torturer wanted by a Spanish judge.

BBC: Mexico boss held on torture charges

In 1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, decided that state torture violated international law, and that America had jurisdiction over a torturer hiding in the United States.

ECONOMIST: The law

She identified Ms al-Khalifa as her torturer.

BBC: Noura al Khalifa