הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) released a major report, based on 547 cases of arrest by soldiers and dozens of interrogations by the GSS in the past year as well as additional cases from previous years.  The report reveals that various security agencies in Israel, chief among them the IDF and the GSS, shackle detainees in painful and humiliating manners that in a number of instances rise to the level of torture in violation of domestic law, High Court of Justice judgments, international law and accepted international standards of practice which allow for restraining for the purposes of preventing a detainee from escaping, or endangering himself or his surroundings. In Israel detainees are painfully shackled as a matter of practice.  Painful shackling is done for invalid and irrelevant reasons, which include causing pain and suffering, punishment, intimidation, and illegally eliciting information and confessions.  The main victims of this practice are Palestinian ‘security’ detainees yet the culture of contempt for the dignity of detainees gravitates inward towards Israeli society itself at times harming detainees who belong to other groups.  The report, entitled, “Shackling as a Form of Torture and Abuse” was written by PCATI Advocate Samah Elkhatib Ayoub.
The report is being published in advance of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims that is marked throughout the world on the 26th of June.

Read an article from YNET news website, one of many articles about this report that were published worldwide.