Human rights violations

Iranian security agents allegedly raped, tortured nurses detained for treating protesters - report

The women were among medical staff at Tehran’s Rajaei Cardiovascular, Medical and Research Center who treated injured demonstrators during nationwide protests in late December and early January.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A security guard stands on a street, during early hours of ceasefire, in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025.
A Human Rights Watch flag is pictured on the Mont-Blanc bridge in Geneva, Switzerland, November 7, 2024.

Human Rights researchers resign over ‘pulled’ report accusing Israel of 'crimes against humanity'

HRW said they concluded “aspects of the research and the factual basis for our legal conclusions needed to be strengthened to meet Human Rights Watch’s high standards.”

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Illustrative People step on an Iranian flag at a march in support of nationwide protests in Iran, Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 18, 2026.

Child among protesters sexually assaulted in Iran, rights group says

HRW and Amnesty warn that Tehran uses rape, sexual violence, and torture to suppress dissent, continuing a pattern of violence following previous protests.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
PEOPLE ATTEND 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.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says

Iran's treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.

|ByTZVI JASPER

UNHRC appoints new Gaza probe chairman

Canton replaces US legal expert Michael Crane, who was appointed to the post on July 25 and resigned from the position on August 23 for unspecified personal reasons.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
UNHRC 521

UN: Israel among 'shameful' countries abusing human rights activists

Israel earns a spot for ongoing legal battle against Omar Shakir.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018ByREUTERS
Omar Shakir from Human Rights Watch

Speaking truth to power

James Loeffler traces the Jewish roots of the world’s human rights organizations

AUGUST 15, 2018ByCOLIN SHINDLER
Amnesty international billboard

U.N. Human Rights - as wrong as ever

MAY 18, 2018ByNEVILLE TELLER
The Jerusalem Post

Syrian Observatory says war has killed more than half a million

About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its allies.

MARCH 12, 2018ByREUTERS
A man holds a child after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 7, 2018.

London Center enlightens public on human rights violations

By viewing human rights violations and national security through the same lens, the London Center is able to conceive of innovative solutions.

MARCH 10, 2018ByYAEL KATZWER
Max Saatchi stands with other protesters while wearing a mask depicting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a "No to Rouhani, Yes to Human Rights in Iran Rally" organized by the National Council of Resistance to Iran, outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York, September 28,

Putin orders 'humanitarian corridor' in Syria's eastern Ghouta

More than 500 people have been killed in the strikes by pro-Assad forces in the past week.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018ByREUTERS
Wounded children in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

EXPOSED! 382 Political Plotters and their "Back Door Power Grab" for the $18 Trillion EU

FEBRUARY 25, 2018ByDAVID PRICE
The Jerusalem Post

Syria's Ghouta residents 'wait to die' as bombs fall

The area is being hammered by one of the heaviest bombardments in seven years of war that has killed at least 250 people in 48 hours.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018ByREUTERS
A civil defense member reacts at a damaged site after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

Exhibition mocking Iranian human rights abuses to kick off in Brussels

The exhibition was created as a forceful response to the controversial International Holocaust Cartoon Competition which takes place annually in Iran.

FEBRUARY 20, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A cartoon from the upcoming Israeli Cartoon Project exhibition in Brussels, mocking Iran's human rights record