Russell heads the Cartoonists Rights Network International, and counts among his clients, cartoonists who have been imprisoned, tortured,even killed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

He had claimed the Chechen leader personally tortured him with electric shocks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

There have been numerous allegations that British intelligence officers were involved in the questioning of terror suspects held abroad and that they may have known some of the suspects were being tortured.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

The rights groups say at the request of the United States, Kenya sent many of the detainees to Somalia and Ethiopia, where some of them were tortured and held incommunicado for months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01