Tag: Torture
The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media...
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
A friend and colleague, Solidarity columnist Eugene Doyle, posed a brief question on the Facebook media page Kiwi...
Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador
Even Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong believes the Gaza flotilla victims and the AFP (Australian Federal Police) is investigating, yet Israel’s ambassador and the...
A world first: Australia will now investigate Israel over Gaza flotilla...
The Australian government has committed to an independent investigation into the assaults, sexual assaults and torture of the Gaza Flotilla humanitarians. Michael West Media...
Calls to dismantle joint taskforce rejected by Fiji govt despite brutality...
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific
A human rights activist in Fiji is calling for the joint police-military taskforce on drugs to be disbanded, but...
‘Sodomised’ and ‘tortured’ – family of Fijian man allegedly beaten by...
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific
Warning: This story contains detailed accounts of alleged police and military brutality, including torture and sexual assault.
The Fiji Police...
Cry, my beloved New Zealand. Another Kiwi abandoned to the IDF
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
There was only one moment when I was interviewing him last week that Mousa Taher broke down and cried. It was...
‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
I interviewed several of the New Zealanders who, as members of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, were taken hostage...
US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...
ANALYSIS: Global Sumud Flotilla
As testimonies from the 428 participants illegally kidnapped by the Israeli regime continue to surface, the United States critical role in...
‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says...
COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas
Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli...
Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal...
Asia Pacific Report
An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand's three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after...
Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations
COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington
It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of...
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
By Jamil Chade
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Israel, saying it has no right to detain Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila and...
Philippines testimony reveals torture, abuses by police, says Amnesty
Asia Pacific Report
Philippines police unlawfully targeted protesters with unnecessary and excessive force during anti-corruption marches in September, according to harrowing new testimony gathered by...
Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse,...
Eugene Doyle: Palestinian ‘Mandela’ beaten unconscious – Western leaders yawned and...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most...
‘We died a thousand times’: Freed Palestinian detainees describe horrific torture
SPECIAL REPORT: By Romana Rubeo
Hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent days have described scenes of systematic torture, starvation, and humiliation.
Their accounts,...
Iran accuses US over ‘torpedoed diplomacy’ – passes bill to halt...
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem
Kia ora koutou,
I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
Israeli prison system designed to crush Palestinian resilience, says ex-detainee
Asia Pacific Report
A researcher says the Israeli prison system aims to subjugate the Palestinian people as rallies across the West Bank marked Prisoners' Day...
Drug war victims’ families celebrate Duterte’s arrest, vow to keep fighting
By Jodesz Gavilan in Manila
Paolo* was just 15 years old when he witnessed the Philippine National Police (PNP) mercilessly kill his father in 2016.
Nearly...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Hamas, PIJ slam Israel’s ‘barbaric’ raid on Palestinians at Ofer Prison
Asia Pacific Report
Two Palestinian resistance groups have condemned “the brutal assault” on prisoners at Ofer Prison, saying it was “barbaric criminal behaviour that reflects...
Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace,...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies.
Still...















![Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations "The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ben-Gvir-actists-AW-680wide-324x160.png)


















