Torture

Eli Sharabi asks UN Human Rights Council to 'name these crimes,' recognize hostage abuse as torture

“I have chosen the road of justice, beyond politics and grounded in our shared humanity,” he said. “This council must recognize the torture, demand criminal investigations, and confront the terror."

Eli Sharabi, a former hostage, holds a photograph of himself during his release by Hamas as he the United Nations Security Council in New York City, US, March 20, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks in Istanbul, Turkey, January 30, 2026; illustrative.

Iran's Araghchi dismisses, smiles at reporter's question on regime's execution, torture of Iranians

A man walks inside the Adra prison in the town of Adra on the northeast outskirts of Damascus on December 16, 2024.

Assad-era Syrian official convicted of torture, jailed for 60 years by US court

People gather to welcome Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons under a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025

Hamas using Nasser Hospital as interrogation, torture center in Gaza, IDF says


Exile Iranians, Reporters without Borders want cleric arrested for torture

Kaveh Moussavi, an exile Iranian, told the German Die Welt paper that Mansouri was involved in a crime operation that caused “the murder and ultimately the torture of at least one person.”

Soldiers of the German armed forces Bundeswehr hold the Iranian flag

Iran imposes flogging on Christian convert for peaceful protest

“There is no evidence against me, so I ought to have been acquitted.”

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna

German court opens first Syria torture trial

A former intelligence officer who applied for asylum in Germany six years ago after leaving Syria, is charged with 58 murders in a Damascus prison, where at least 4,000 activists were tortured.

MEMBERS OF the Syrian Democratic Forces attend a funeral in Qamishli, Syria.

Palestinian who almost died in interrogation ‘not necessarily tortured’

State Attorney Shai Nitzan was asked about under staffing and insufficient funds provided to the Justice Ministry’s special unit, for probing complaints of alleged torture of detainees.

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Banana b'kiseh"

Would we know if Palestinians were being tortured by the Shin Bet?

The High Court of Justice has declared torture of detainees – whether they are sympathetic or not – to be illegal since 1999, even for terrorists.

Actors demonstrate the Israeli Shin Bet torture method known as "Banana b'kiseh"

‘Tortured’ Palestinian suspect expected to be sent back to Shin Bet

Both IDF courts and the Supreme Court rejected Arbid’s defense lawyers’ previous requests to release him from being a detainee on the grounds that the Shin Bet allegedly beat him into a coma.

IDF soldiers searching in the West Bank for the terrorists who killed Rina Shnerb, August 2019

Rina Shnerb's alleged murderer linked to European-funded BDS affiliates

Arbid was listed as an accountant for Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, which is a European-funded NGO.

Rina Shnerb, 17, was killed by an improvised explosive device in the West Bank, August 23 2019

Authorities silent on medical update of ‘tortured’ Palestinian suspect

The Jerusalem Post has learned that already on Thursday, at a detention hearing before the IDF West Bank courts, he complained of various pains from his interrogation by the Shin Bet.

Avichay Mandelblit attends Ayelet Shaked's goodbye party.

Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture

Hathloul was arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had long campaigned for. Local media tarred them as traitors.

Majdooleen, who is among the first Saudi women allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, drives her car in her neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia June 24, 2018.

Muslim Chinese woman describes torture in detention camp

FILE PHOTO - Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll to Tiananmen Square during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015