Palestinians think so, but Shin Bet interrogators scoff at U.S. methods

Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service

On 31.12.07, PCATI's attorney Yaara Kalmanovich submitted a letter of complaint to the military prosecutor demanding that they develop new regulations and instructions in order to restrict the use of dogs by IDF soldiers and to prohibit any use of dogs towards detainees.

PCATI attorney Samah Elkhatib-Ayoub submitted a complaint to attorney Hertzel Shviro, Head of the Police Investigations Department, against police officers who seriously assaulted and sodomized Mr. Mohammad Werneeat the Maaleh Adumim police station.

Article by Aviram Zino to "Ynet" news

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.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) held a special event in Tel Aviv to mark United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26th).

Following a complaint filed on 17 December 2007 by PCATI Attorney Samah Elkhatib Ayoub, a soldier was convicted of assault leading to injury and for inappropriate behavior.

Following a complaint filed on 17 December 2007 by PCATI Attorney Samah Elkhatib Ayoub, a soldier was convicted of assault leading to injury and for inappropriate behavior.

The Justices gave the MAG forty days to reconsider his decision.

Seven Israeli Human Rights Organizations:
Israel held many Gaza prisoners in harsh and humiliating conditions and threatened their lives and their health

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.

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. 

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.

PCATI Attorney Majd Bader was invited to the United Nations in Geneva to testify before the Goldstone Commission.

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.