Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

September 3, 2020       Share:    

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/amnesty-accuses-iran-widespread-torture-2019-protests-200902054224378.html

Amnesty Accuses Iran of Widespread Torture during 2019 Protests

(Al Jazeera) Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Iran of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a crackdown against protests last year. Amnesty gathered dozens of testimonies from the 7,000 people it estimated were arrested, which included children as young as 10. The accounts reveal "a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment."

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: