This report, issued by PCATI, describes the routine of torture in Israel from the point of view of its victims.

Nine detailed case studies narrating the victims' experiences from the moment of arrest, through interrogation and trial and through the routine refusal of the Ministry of Justice to investigate their complaints will provide us with a glimpse into the world of torture in Israel.

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The report will be presented to the press on Wednesday, 30 May 2007, at 10:00 AM at the office of The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), 31 Blumenfeld Street, Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem. Copies of the report (in PDF or Word files) will be sent to journalists upon request.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Amnesty International – Israel invite you to participate in the call to transform the Jerusalem police headquarters at the Russian Compound – that houses a GSS interrogation and torture unit – into a torture free zone

 Submission Concerning Israel’s Policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories relevant the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Torture and Ill-treatment of Palestinian Detainees during Arrest, Detention and Interrogation
September 2001 – April 2003

An article published in Ynet by Aviram Zino.

Torture and imminent threats: the Israeli example
by Louis Frankenthaler, director of development and Education for the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
pages 9 - 11

Norway's embassy in Tel Aviv has urged the government to criticize Israel for the alleged use of torture in prisons, the state radio network NRK reported Thursday.

By Jim Fish
The BBC's correspondent in Jerusalem

Article written By Louis Frankenthaler, Development & International Outreach Director at the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), published at "The Palestine Chronicle"

The report, published this morning, reveals the widespread phenomenon of violence against bound Palestinian detainees by IDF soldiers and the almost absolute indifference of the IDF, the Ministry of Defense and the Knesset towards the existence of this phenomenon and the need to take action in order to eradicate it completely.

Three human rights organizations, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and  Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel withdrewtoday their principle petition that they submitted to the High Court of Justice (HCJ).  This was done in protest of the Court's unprecedented and invalid majority decision by the nine judge panel to base their decision on the constitutionality of a law on secret evidence presented by Israel's General Security Service (GSS) and heard ex-parte, in the absence of the petitioners. 

An opinion article by Yoav Loeff, PCATI's coordinator of public engagement

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and HaMoked, the Center for the Defence of the Individual (HaMoked) filed a contempt of court motion to the High Court of Justice against the government of Israel and its head, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and against the General Security Service (GSS) and its head Yuval Diskin for their responsibility for the policy that grants a-priori permits to use torture in interrogation that fundamentally violates the High Court of Justice decision of September1999

Following international pressure, the Israel Medical Association (IMA) decided to investigate allegations of the involvement of physicians in the torture and ill treatment of Palestinian detainees and the fact that these cases were not reported.

Three human rights organizations withdrew a principle petition in protest of the High Court's unprecedented and invalid decision to base their decision on the constitutionality of a law on secret evidence presented by Israel's General Security Service (GSS) and heard ex-parte.

PCATI and PHR-Israel wrote to chair of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) ethics committee, Prof. Avinoam Reches, claiming that the manner in which complaints concerning physician involvement in torture are investigated are flawed.

Marking the 26th of June as The UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture PCATI is planning a multi-faceted campaign  that will focus on the issue of shackling as torture and ill treatment. 

An article from The Guardian on physicians and torture in Israel that refers to PCATI'S 2007 report, "Ticking Bombs" ...

A variety of agencies in Israel – chief among them the GSS and the IDF – shackle detainees in painful ways that amount to torture and ill treatment.This is done in violation of Israeli law, basic moral principles and international law, including international human rights conventions  signed by Israel. The primary victims of this practice are Palestinian ‘security’ detainees.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) this morning petitioned the High Court of Justice demanding that it order the GSS to refrain from using shackling as an interrogation tool and, particularly, to refrain from shackling interrogees in degrading positions or in positions that cause pain, suffering, or that constitute torture.

The Israeli High Court of Justice ruled today in favor of changing the indictments filed against the soldier and commander who were involved in the shooting of a handcuffed detainee in Ni’lin.

On 6 July 2009, the High Court of Justice rejected the contempt of court motion filed by PCATI, HaMoked and ACRI on the violation of the HCJ judgement on torture of September 1999.

An Article from YNET news website about PCATI's new report.

PCATI attorney Samah Elkhatib-Ayoub testified on 9 August 2009 in Amman before the UN Special Committee to Investigte Israeli Practices affecting Human Rights of the Palestinian People and other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.

With the publication of the Goldstone Committee report today, human rights organizations in Israel are studying the report and its conclusions, and they call upon the Israeli Government to take the report seriously and to refrain from automatically rejecting its findings or denying its legitimacy.

Subsequent to the petition submitted by five human rights organizations led by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), the High Court of Justice today clearly stated that it is forbidden to use threats, false promises and charades that relate to family members of interrogees as a form of pressure in General Security Service (GSS) and police interrogations.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) published their new report "Implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment by Israel"

A new report by PCATI exposes an intolerable reality. Israeli authorities systematically prevent investigations of complaints of torture against General Security Service (GSS) interrogators. 

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Petitions the High Court of Justice: Order the Attorney General to Investigate Allegations of Torture in GSS Interrogations.

Health Min., Israel Medical Association probing whether physicians failed to
report torture of Palestinian detainee
Sun., March 14, 2010 Adar 28, 5770 [Print Edition Front Page]
By Dan Even

The Public Committee Against Torture in
Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human
Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) demanded last week that the Ministry of Health
and the
Israel Medical Association (IMA) investigate the case of the Palestinian
prisoner, Jihad Mughrabi.

Position Paper
April 2010
Introduction
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) entered into force on 22 June 2006, as the culmination of decades of negotiations over the establishment of a worldwide system of torture prevention based on regular visits to places of detention.  To date, as many as 64 states have signed and 50 states have ratified or acceded to the OPCAT.

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

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

On the fifth anniversary of the capture of Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit, leading Israeli, Palestinian and International Human Rights organizations issued a joint statement demanding that those holding him must immediately end his inhumane and illegal treatment.

This petition deals with the Attorney General’s complete abstention from ordering the opening of criminal investigations against GSS interrogators suspected of torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (hereinafter: “ill-treatment”) of interrogees.

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

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.