הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

A new report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR) based on over 100 complaints reveals that medical professionals are involved in torture and in covering it up, in violation of ethical obligations.

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

Over the past few months, the staff of PCATI’s Educational Department
has run two series dealing with the intersection between film, critical
viewing and human rights. The series were held in Jerusalem and in Tel
Aviv and were open to the public.

A new series of videos produced by the Public Committee Against Torture
in cooperation with Social Television discusses the subject of
responsibility in democratic society.

A new report from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel exposes:
ISA illegal & systematically prevents Palestinian detainees from meeting with an attorney
Comprehensive study of thousands of Palestinian detainees done in conjunction with   a Palestinian prisoners' rights organization reveals sweeping ISA prevention of detainee meetings with a lawyer during lengthy interrogations

To mark International Human Rights Day, which takes place every year on
the 10th of December, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
along with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel held the “Ball on the
Brink – Artists for Human Rights”.

HCJ orders an urgent discussion of appeal filed by PCATI demanding the opening of a criminal investigation of GSS interrogators suspected of using torture.

“They put me in an isolation cell, then returned me to the solitary confinement wing”. The testimony of Ala’a Salem from his GSS interrogation

The protest was initiated by the Public Committee Against Torture in
Israel, Rabbis for Human Rights and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel,
and its intent was to initiate a new year free from the police violence
and torture carried out by the Israeli security forces.

On Thursday the 30th of September 2010 a protest was staged opposite the Russian Compound in Jerusalem against torture and police brutality.