ShareThisInternational Campaign for the Absolute Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment
The absolute prohibition of torture is under attack, and public opinion is putting up with it. This deviation from the international norm is a negation of the dignity of the human person.
More...Everyone and their own Goldstone, Dr. Ishai Menuchin
As an Israeli I am happy that Judge Richard Goldstone has decided that,
in retrospect, some of the IDF’s actions, initially designated as war
crimes in his committee’s report, were in fact not so.
PCATI issues update to 2009 report on ISA Impunity
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"
More...Joint Open Letter to the Israeli Knesset
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
More...Joint Statement in the wake of attacks and threats against activists and organizations
New Report Reveals: In Israel's Health Care System Covering Up Torture and Ill Treatment is the Norm
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.
More...The proposal to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the funding and activity of human rights and peace organiz
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:
More...Israeli human rights groups: Anti-boycott law effectively a legal annexation of the West Bank
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.
More...“Torture and Responsibility”, Dr. Ishai Menuchin
Despite the High Court of Justice’s 1999 ruling in “Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and
others v. Government of Israel and others”, according to which there exists an absolute prohibition
against torture as well as a prohibition against certain interrogation techniques without ruling
them to be torture, torture in Israel persists.
More...Don’t Bother the Copper: PCATI Attorney Meissa Irshaid on Her Run-in With Commander Kobi Behar
A few days after I was assaulted by Police Commander Kobi Behar adjacent to the uprooted village of
Bara’am on 15.5.11, the day for commemorating the Palestinian Nakba, “Every Moment” Radio claimed
that: “before the slap, Attorney Meissa Irshaid, from Nazareth, physically assaulted the police officer,
and the documented slap was the officer’s instinctive response”.
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