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.
Torture of Ukrainian prisoners 'widespread and systematic,' UN rights official says
PA must end torture, arbitrary detention of Palestinians in West Bank, UN rights office demands
Flotilla detainees suffered violence, sexual abuse at Ashdod Port, Adalah says
Shin Bet cleared of 'torture' of Palestinian accused in Rina Shnerb murder
Samer Arbid almost died from his interrogation.
Belarus opposition asks European prosecutors to probe torture accusations
Belarus has been rocked by months of anti-government protests after veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in an Aug. 9 presidential election.
Screenplay in works about rabbi who tortured men to get religious divorces
Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times journalist and author of the best-selling novel “Fleishman Is In Trouble,” said the subject matter “is extremely close to my heart.”
Israeli allegedly tortured by Belarus police, accused of being a spy
Alexander Forman and his family traveled to Belarus to seek for any information they could find on relatives who they knew were murdered in Minsk during the Holocaust.
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.”
Iran imposes flogging on Christian convert for peaceful protest
“There is no evidence against me, so I ought to have been acquitted.”
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
