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."

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
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

On Monday, Araghchi denounced other countries for not condemning alleged "atrocities" committed in Iran by the United States and Israel.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, was charged in 2024 and convicted in March on one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture for his involvement in the abuse of prisoners.

|ByREUTERS
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

An investigation by the Shin Bet and the IDF revealed that masked Hamas terrorists were spotted in the hospital, with its second floor being used to torture Palestinians.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Jewish terrorist serving life appeals High Court, gets rejected

Amiram Ben-Uliel murdered the Palestinian Dawabshe family in Duma in 2015. He appealed to the court in March, claiming he was tortured into confessing.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

How to go on the offensive against anti-Zionists

From the Palestinian leadership’s misogyny, intolerance of LGBQT+, dictatorship-style treatment of journalists and their citizens, and kleptocracy: Narratives to go on the offensive.

JULY 27, 2022By ERIC R. MANDEL
A poster for the 2009 Israeli Apartheid Week, designed by Carlos Latuff.

Palestinian leaders are waging a war on Palestinians - opinion

How many Palestinians will be targeted and oppressed by their own leadership – for lack of a better term – before these self-proclaimed pro-Palestinian voices will speak up?

JULY 25, 2022ByEMILY SCHRADER
PALESTINIANS CLASH with PA security forces during a protest over the death of Nizar Banat, in Ramallah, last year.

Hamas and PA torture of jailed Palestinians is 'crime against humanity' - HRW

Torture and mistreatment of Palestinians by the PA and Hamas may amount to crimes against humanity, HRW and Lawyers for Justice said.

JULY 1, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PALESTINIAN POLICEMEN face off against demonstrators in Ramallah in June, during protests following the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority.

Man suspected of murdering a Palestinian accuses Shin Bet of torture

Palestinian Ali Hassan Harav was killed last week during a fight near Ariel with a group of 14-year-old Jews and grown-ups accompanying them.

JUNE 27, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF SOLDIERS stand guard next to a poster which reads in Hebrew, ‘A Jew doesn’t torture a Jew. Enough with the inquisition,’ at the entrance to Ariel

Russia opens criminal cases into alleged torture of its soldiers by Ukraine

Ukraine has said it checks all information regarding the treatment of prisoners of war and will investigate any violations and take appropriate legal action.

APRIL 14, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian soldiers march in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 13, 2022

Torture or saving lives: The alleged Shin Bet abuse of Palestinian detainees

Since 2001, there have been 1,300 torture complaints, but barely any criminal investigations. Even as investigations deepened, there has still not been a single indictment.

OCTOBER 30, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF soldiers detain a Palestinian man following a house raid in Hebron, 2016

Iranian witness to torture of wrestler Navid Afkari killed

Shahin Naseri said he was an “eyewitness to medieval torture” of the executed wrestler.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A portrait of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari during a demonstration on the Dam Square in Amsterdam, Sept. 13, 2020.

North Korea tortures and executes Christians, USCIRF says

A United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report states North Korea secretly and regularly violates the religious freedoms of civilians.

AUGUST 18, 2021ByTAL SPUNGIN
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for an opening ceremony of a newly constructed residential complex in Ryomyong street in Pyongyang, North Korea April 13, 2017

Iran’s regime threatens to execute brother of wrestler Navid Afkari

Navid’s brothers Vahid and Habib also participated in the demonstrations against the regime in 2018

MAY 3, 2021ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Executed Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari