US contractor held liable for torture, with jury awarding $42m to Abu Ghraib survivors

A United States defense contractor must pay $42m to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, a US federal jury has ruled. The...

Leaked scenes from Israel's Megiddo prison reveal abuse of Palestinian prisoners

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published leaked footage from the security wing of Megiddo Prison showing the abuse of Palestinian prisoners a...

What should happen to US citizens accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel?

 With the storming of the prison where Israeli troops who were said to have tortured and sexually abused Palestinian detainees and their rel...

US government's reaction to "Welcome to Hell" report: "We support an investigation by the Israeli military into abuses committed by its soldiers against Palestinian detainees"

The White House said reports of rape , torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees by the Israeli military are "deeply disturbing,"...

B’Tselem Report on on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons: “Welcome to Hell”

“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem col...

Media Reporting, Revealed: first picture of war on terror detainee in CIA black site

The Guardian newspaper published today a report about CIA black sites where suspects were held and interrogated. Here are some excerpts fro...

Israel is Torturing Palestinians to Death in Inhumane Detention Centers

Describing detention centers as "Guantanamo Israel", The "Washington Post" documents horrific testimonies of violations ...

US doctors calling for cease-fire: Gaza casualties may exceed 92,000

A group of  45 American volunteer doctors and nurses signed an open letter addressed to US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Har...

On the US Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity and its impact on human rights

The US high court ruling on the presidential immunity is now being processed and spun as political matter. When partisan fervor settles do...

Aljazeera exclusive photos show Israeli security and armed forces using Palestinian prisoners as human shields

Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive new images showing the Israeli occupation army using Palestinian prisoners as human shields during the fi...

UN: Evidence of crimes against humanity of extermination, gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys, murder, forcible transfer, and torture and inhuman and cruel treatment

The UN Independent International Commission Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found evidence of crimes against humanity of exter...

The Guardian: Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

Confirming testimony by detained Palestinians who have been released recently and a UN agency report , The Guardian reported that not only ...

New York Times reporting on Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli detention centers: Beatings, electrocution and sexual assaults.. The hell that Gaza detainees live in

The  New York Times conducted an investigative report from inside a military base in southern Israel where Palestinian civilians from the Ga...

UN experts: “Israel” buried Palestinians alive in mass graves in Gaza

 United Nations experts revealed that the 390 bodies recently found in mass graves in Nasser and Shifa hospitals in the Gaza Strip, a number...

HRW Report: Israeli settlers have assaulted, tortured, and committed sexual violence against Palestinians

Human Rights Watch investigated attacks by Israeli settlers and found that Palestinians were subjected to violence, torture, and sexual viol...

Torture in USA: First of 6 officers gets 20 years over torture of two Black men

 The only thing that is universal about human rights is that human rights abuses are universal—they take place in every society. In modern t...

Ajith Songhai, rep of the UNCHR: Horrific details of the circumstances of Israel's detention of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza... Humiliation, stripping, searches, and insults beyond imagination

Israeli forces have likely detained thousands of men in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war against Hamas, and they often face conditi...

Washington Post Report: Gazan prisoners describe abuse at secretive Israeli detention sites

Jihad Hamouda, a 20-year-old Palestinian citizen of Gaza City, told the Washington Post about his suffering in an Israeli detention center....

Israeli media investigation report: Stripped, shocked, and beaten... at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces

The Israeli magazine "+972" and the "Local Call" website conducted a joint journalistic investigation that revealed aspe...

Israel's Guantánamo: Euro-Med Monitor calls for international probe into Israel’s torture and murder of Gaza detainees

The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory, in a report today , Monday, indicated that the testimonies it collected were consistent with what was re...

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