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PCATI Updates its Report on Impunity: In 2012 despite Israel's Attorney General's pledge to reform the torture complaints investigation process there has been no change. The result: "Accountability Still Denied" 

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights (EMHRN), are writing to you regarding the decision taken on November 13, 2011 by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation to approve two proposed b

The public committee Against Torture in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights reveal today a new and pioneering report about the involvement of Israeli medical personal in torture and abuse of interrogates and detainees.

The full report attached

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel's staff decided that PCATI

will participate in a general strike for social justice to take place on 1 August

Tomorrow, July 20, 2011, you are going to vote on the proposal to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into civil society organizations, including the undersigned.

Before you decide how to vote, we would like to call your attention to the following:

Press release, July 12, 2011: A new Israeli law passed on Monday prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions against civil society organisations and businesses that participate in boycotts.