Inventing Reality

The point is that while there was literally torture going on, what the title instead focuses on is on another unrelated minister mocking the activists. No one is saying that the minister was the one to do the torture or whatever scenario you got cooked up, the issue is that the title is not highlighting what the main story is, but some comparatively much more minor story happening in parallel. Which has the effect of sweeping the main, way more egregious by the side.

My protip: if you think "wow I cant believe someone is actually this dumb" it's more likely that you misunderstood something than that the other person really is as dumb as they seem to you. And you would look a lot smarter if you first checked "Do you actually mean x or am I misunderstanding something?" before posting smug one-liners.