Torture

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.

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.
 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) smile after a swap in Chernihiv region

Torture of Ukrainian prisoners 'widespread and systematic,' UN rights official says

Police officers stand guard as Palestinians protest outside the Prime Minister's office, calling on the government to fulfil demands related to prisoners and injured people, in Ramallah, the West Bank, May 31, 2026

PA must end torture, arbitrary detention of Palestinians in West Bank, UN rights office demands

Israeli soldiers seen on a vessel belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla as seen from Ashdod, May 19, 2026.

Flotilla detainees suffered violence, sexual abuse at Ashdod Port, Adalah says


Released hostages speak of experiences in Gaza, worries of last-minute attacks

Food was running low during their final two weeks • "Until the last moment we weren't sure," if we would make it home: "We thought they would lynch us on the way to Israel."

Aviv Asher, 2.5 her sister Raz Asher, 4.5, and mother Doron, react as they meet with Yoni, Raz and Aviv's father and Doron's husband, after they returned to Israel to the designated complex at the Schneider Children's Medical Center, during a truce between Hamas and Israel.

Yahya Sinwar's 1989 interrogation reveals Hamas leader's cruelty, ruthlessness

Yahya Sinwar's interrogation transcripts from 1989 provide a glimpse into the Gaza Hamas leader's cruelty, and his willingness to risk the lives of his people and family without batting an eyelid.

 Yahya Sinwar Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, waves to Palestinians during a rally to mark the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in Gaza, April 14, 2023.

Five weeks after October 7 attacks, words still fail to capture their extent - opinion

"Inhuman," "savage," "barbarian," "Nazi" - none of these can adequately describe the level of depravity Hamas committed.

 The Israel Antiquities Authority works to find remnants of Hamas victims in Kibbutz Be'eri.

Herzog shows CNN Hamas terrorists' guide to torture hostages

The IDF seized documents and weapons from Hamas terrorists captured and killed during Hamas's assault on southern Israel.

 A guide used by Hamas terrorists captured by the IDF.

The last Jew of Yemen is being tortured by the Houthis and must be saved - opinion

With a UN-negotiated ceasefire in Yemen largely holding, and peace talks being held in Riyadh, now is the time to raise our voices on behalf of Levi Marhabi and to push for his release.

 A SECURITY forces member loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels guards a bonfire incinerating seized narcotics, in Sana’a.

Torture, sexual violence commonly used by Russian forces in Ukraine, say experts

Ukrainian authorities are reviewing more than 97,000 reports of war crimes by Russian forces and have filed charges against 220 suspects in domestic courts.

A Ukrainian couple stands next to Russian soldiers in the Crimean town of Balaclava.

UN experts raise 'widespread' torture concerns with Russia

The UN experts said torture included electric shocks, hoodings and mock executions and had been carried out to extract intelligence, force confessions or in response to alleged support for Ukraine

 Russian conscripts called up for military service line up before their departure for garrisons as they gather at a recruitment centre in Simferopol, Crimea, April 25, 2023.

Palestinian rights groups demand probe into death of preacher in Hamas detention

Mohammed al-Sufi was known for his criticism of Hamas leaders and their ties to Iran and was detained upon his return from Egypt last week.

 A drug addict attends an interview with Reuters at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City March 1, 2017. Picture taken March 1, 2017.

Russia financed torture chambers in Ukraine's Kherson - war crimes probe

Survivors of the Russia-funded torture chambers in Ukraine's Kherson told Reuters about being tortured, including electric shocks and suffocation techniques.

 An interior view shows a basement of a building, which Ukrainian authorities say was a makeshift Russian prison and torture chamber during Russia's invasion in the village of Kozacha Lopan, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 18, 2022

Ukraine tells Georgia to stop torturing ex-president, Ukrainian citizen

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Georgia to release former president and Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili, who they claim is being tortured.

 Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili is seen on a screen via a video link from a clinic during a court hearing to consider a request from Saakashvili's legal team to release him or defer his six-year sentence for abuse of power over health concerns, in Tbilisi, February 1, 2023.