Torture

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
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
Assad-era general, Adel Issa, was detained in Lebanon and transferred to Syria.

Lebanon hands Assad-era general to Syria in first such transfer since Assad’s fall

The ministry said Issa was wanted under an arrest warrant on charges including intentional homicide, facilitating a felony, killing more than two people, and more.

|ByREUTERS
Internally displaced Palestinians carry walter containers past hundreds tents now housing them after their homes were destroyed, in Khan Yunis southern Gaza Strip on August 11, 2026.

Hamas intensified Gaza torture, interrogations post-Oct. 2025 ceasefire, IDF Arabic spox says

Hamas employs physical violence, blackmail, psychological threats and harm, prolonged isolation, and a range of other forms of mistreatment, the IDF said. 

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanon's late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, in rural Aleppo, Syria, December 11, 2024.

Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for murder, torture, crimes against humanity

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was convicted of premeditated murder of multiple people, including children, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN

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

US: PA tortured participants in American-led 2019 Bahrain parley

The PA had boycotted the conference, but some individual Palestinians did participate.

MARCH 31, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Workers place a banner at the pavilion where the U.S. hosted event "Peace to Prosperity" takes place outside Four Seasons Hotel in Manama, Bahrain.

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny reveals terrible treatment in prison

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny claimed that his health has greatly deteriorated and he was being prevented from seeing a doctor and sleeping by prison guards, a practice he likened to torture.

MARCH 25, 2021ByREUTERS
People participate in a demonstration after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in jail, in Moscow, Russia February 2, 2021.

Syrian refugees arbitrarily arrested, tortured in Lebanon - Amnesty

A security agent told one detainee that his "life will end in this place," according to the report.

MARCH 23, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE
Syrian refugees walk as they carry containers at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon March 12, 2021