Torture

UK to shell out ‘substantial’ out of court settlement to Palestinian Guantanamo detainee

Zubaydah was accused of being a high-ranking Al-Qaeda official and was alleged to have run training camps in Afghanistan for terrorists. The claim has not been substantiated.

A group of detainees kneels during an early morning Islamic prayer in their camp at the US military prison for "enemy combatants" on October 28, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Former Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot reacts as he returns home after leaving the hospital, following his release from captivity in Gaza, in Mevaseret Zion, Israel, October 19, 2025.

'I could hear the carnage': Former hostage Elkana Bohbot recounts Nova massacre, Hamas captivity

Former hostage Segev Kalfon speaks in Jerusalem, November 17, 2025.

Freed hostage Segev Kalfon denounces lack of support received from Israel since release

An anti-Israeli billboard is seen on a street, early hours of ceasefire, in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025.

Executed Iranian nuclear scientist confessed to aiding Israel after torture, threats against mother


HRW report: PA, Hamas are torturing Palestinians

HRW said that while the authorities regularly receive citizen complaints and have systems to investigate them, only a minority have resulted in a finding of wrongdoing.

The hand of a Palestinian inmate is seen in a prison in the West Bank city of Nablus February 11, 2008.

With Pompeo to Riyadh, Saudis may acknowledge Khashoggi death

Trump dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet King Salman over the case that has strained the Americans' relationship with the Saudis, carefully cultivated by the US president.

A demonstrator holds picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2018

‘Ticking bomb’ limit on enhanced interrogation is dead

The question of how far enhanced interrogation can go before it constitutes torture – and whether the Shin Bet had crossed that line – was ripe for a decision.

A man looks out of a house badly damaged by a firebomb attack by suspected Jewish extremists in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank, July 31, 2015

Will Duma arson-terrorism defendants walk free?

Prosecution dropped portions of confessions that had been obtained through enhanced interrogation

Graffiti left on the Dawabshe family’s home in Duma following the incident says ‘May the King Messiah live!’ Three Palestinians were killed in the July 2015 arson-terrorist attack

Are we on a collision course over interrogations?

Some other democratic countries have used disputed interrogation methods on occasion, such as England in Northern Ireland and Iraq, and France in Algeria.

An IDF soldier stands next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner

High Court: Enhanced interrogation was legal to stop 'ticking bomb'

Did Israel’s Shin Bet finally cross the line and torture a suspect under interrogation?

An IDF soldier stands next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner

Shin Bet enhanced interrogations to stop ticking bombs - legal or torture?

18 years after making torture illegal in interrogations, the High Court will set parameters.

An IDF soldier stands next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner

North Korea insists US student Warmbier wasn't tortured

According to Otto Warmbier's parents, the American student “had a shaved head, he had a feeding tube coming out of his nose, he was staring blankly into space, jerking violently.”

FILE PHOTO - Otto Frederick Warmbier attends a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo February 29, 2016.