הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

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 Petitions the High Court of Justice: Order the Attorney General to Investigate Allegations of Torture in GSS Interrogations.

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.

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.

High Court Judges pointed out (20.5.09) that because of PCATI's petition there have been recognizable improvements in the enforcement of the law to record confessions in the language of the suspect. 

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.

Israeli Supreme Court Orders State to Explain Gaza Civilian Policy:

1. Why Not Permitting Evacuation of Wounded

Wednesday, January 7, 2009: Nine human rights organizations petitioned Israel's Supreme Court today demanding that Israel stop the collapse of Gaza's sewage and water system, a collapse caused by the military operation and by a 14-month policy of systematically blocking fuel supplies necessary to generate electricity

The day the petition was filed, HCJ Justice Ayala Procaccia issued an interim injunction restraining the military prosecutor from proceeding in the case against the Lt. Col. Borberg and the soldier who fired the shot in Ni'lin and issued an order nisi demanding the State to submit within 21 days its response explaining the nature of the indictment. A hearing on the petition will be held before the end September.

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.