Detention centers

UN torture report flags Israel for allegedly mistreating journalists, detainees, ex-MAG

The UN warned Israel over alleged abuses against rights defenders and detainees, calling for stronger legal protections and impartial investigations.

An Israel Prison Service officer at Ketziot Prison watches as Palestinian prisoners are prepared for release in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Gazan terrorists, February 26, 2025; illustrative.
 A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

NGO: Israel's 11,000 Palestinian security prisoners breaks record

Alligator Alcatraz detention center.

Judge orders halt to new construction at 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center

 Activist Greta Thunberg and crew stand aboard the aid ship Madleen, which left the Italian port of Catania on June 1 to travel to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, in this picture released on June 2, 2025 on social media.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Six detainees board flight at Ben-Gurion Airport for deportation


Gazan paramedic recounts alleged mistreatment in Israeli detention

Israel's military has said detainees are treated in accordance with international law and that allegations of abuse against Palestinian detainees were being investigated.

 Israeli army vehicles transport a group of soldiers and journalists inside the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas war, July 3, 2024.

Israel to phase out use of military-run detention camp that held Palestinian inmates

Israel has come under increasing international pressure over its treatment of thousands of Palestinians detained in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the war.

 Israeli police stand outside the entrance to Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, from where Palestinian terror convicts will be released later today as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, November 26, 2023

Women march to Knesset to support Jewish administrative detainees

There are currently 22 Jewish people who have administrative conditions set against them in Israel.

 Pictures from the march

Spain to bring back Spanish families from Islamic State camps in Syria

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria to live in Islamic State's so-called caliphate until 2019.

 A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

The Tehran children and their remarkable four-year trek home

A new exhibition supported by JNF-USA at the Atlit Detention Camp heritage site, shows the dangerous journey of 1,000 Jewish orphans from Poland to pre-state Israel via Iran.

 A young Jewish boy holds yellow signs bearing the names of jews who were deported from Bordeaux to Nazi death camps in World War II. The demonstration took place in front of a synagogue, October 8 coinciding with the opening of the trial of Maurice Papon, an ex-cabinet minister, charged with crimes

Iran protests flare again as UN voices concern at detainees' treatment

Many protesters that were in critical condition in hospitals have been secretly moved to detention centers.

People light a fire during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022.

Tennis star Djokovic out of Australia detention, still faces deportation threat

Djokovic, 34, was released from Australian immigration detention, but may still be facing deportation following protests about him being granted medical exemption COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Tennis - Official Presentation of ATP Team Competition - The O2, London, Britain - November 15, 2018 Novak Djokovic during a press conference

China builds nearly 400 camps for Muslim Uighur minority - report

2019 US government estimates placed the number of detainees at 3,000,000.

A man wears a mask as he walks past a mural showing a modified image of the Chinese Communist Party emblem in Shanghai, China after the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, January 28, 2020

US watchdog to investigate forced-sterilization claims at ICE facility

"A lot of them said that they didn't understand what was being done to them. Nobody explained it to them," Wooten, a former nurse at the facility told Reuters.

PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE outside the ICE immigration detention center in Adelanto, California, last month

Truck drives into Jewish protesters at ICE detention center in Rhode Island

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico