Torture

Responding to a petition to Israel's Supreme Court, the Shin Bet intelligence agency on Monday insisted its interrogation practices are humane. The Public Committee Against Torture had petitioned the...

An MP representing Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council has claimed that the Palestinian Authority's security agencies in the West Bank are still engaged in violence amounting to torture...

As reported earlier this week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decreed that all of the relevant agencies under his authority must abide by the provisions of the Basic Law...

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement has welcomed a report by the UN Rights of the Child Committee which reveals details of Israel's systematic criminal acts against Palestinian children. In a...

A UN committee has accused Israel of torturing Palestinian children in the occupied territories. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child says that thousands of Palestinian children...

Leaked records of the interrogation of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, reveal that he has been insulted and assaulted by police since his arrest on...

The arbitrary detention of Muslim Brotherhood members signals the return of a police state, a movement spokesman has said. "That is why the Brotherhood cannot accept the coup against...

Egyptian state security forces have arrested Saad Al-Shater, the son of the Muslim Brotherhood's Deputy Supreme Guide Khayrat Al-Shater. Family members said that the soldiers broke down the doors...

A British Member of the European Parliament has quizzed the EU Foreign Affairs chief over torture in prisons run by the Palestinian Authority. Phil Bennion MEP asked Cathy Ashton...