torture News and latest stories | The Jerusalem Post

Members of the Russian Emergencies Ministry carry out search and rescue operations at the Crocus City Hall concert venue after a shooting attack and fire, outside Moscow, Russia, in this picture obtained March 24, 2024.

Terrorists behind concert massacre in Russia tortured before hearings

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 19, 2024.

UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with ‘climate of fear’

Israeli soldiers operate next to the UNRWA headquarters, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024.

UN expert on torture examines treatment of Palestinian detainees

Agam Goldstein Almog

Released Gaza hostage tells of trauma, Hamas's sexual violence

By Uri Sella

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announces US Justice Department anti-trust lawsuit against Google in Washington, January 24, 2023.

US charges four 'Russia-affiliated' military personnel with war crimes

By Yuval Barnea

AN IRANIAN fan holds a jersey in memory of Mahsa Amini, inside the stadium before a World Cup soccer match between Iran and Wales, in Qatar, last November.

Iranian authorities accused of torture, sexual abuse, ‘systemic immunity’ from prosecution

By OWEN HOLDAWAY/THE MEDIA LINE

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.

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

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

By Walla!

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

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

By RALPH GRUNEWALD

A guide used by Hamas terrorists captured by the IDF.

Herzog shows CNN Hamas terrorists' guide to torture hostages

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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

By MICHAEL FREUND

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

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

By REUTERS

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.

UN experts raise 'widespread' torture concerns with Russia

By REUTERS

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

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

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

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

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

By REUTERS

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.

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