ShareThisAttorney General’s complete abstention from ordering the opening of criminal investigations against GSS interrogators suspected
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.
More...HAARETZ Headline:Health Min., Israel Medical Association probing
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 AG to Investigate Torture
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.
10 years, Hundreds of Complaints, No Investigations
A new report by PCATI exposes an intolerable reality. Israeli authorities systematically prevent investigations of complaints of torture against General Security Service (GSS) interrogators.
More...HCJ rejected the contempt of court Petition filed by PCATI and other organizations
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.
More...8 Human Rights NGOs sent a letter to the Attorny General Demanding the establishment of an independent investigation mechanism
On January 20, 2009, eight human rights NGOs – the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Bimkom, B'Tselem, Gisha, Hamoked Center for Defense of the Individual, the Public Committee Against Torture in Isael, Yesh Din, and Physicians for Human Rights, sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding the establishment of an independent mechanism to investigate the killing and injuring of civilians during the fighting in Gaza, in cases in which there is a strong suspicion that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) committed serious breaches of the humanitarian law.
More...Torture in the Kishon detention center
On 21 November 2007, PCATI attorney Samah Elkhatib-Ayoub submitted a complaint to the Attorney General on behalf of Ima’ad Hotri, a detainee who stated that he was tortured at the Kison Detention Center.
More...Protest of 8 human rights organizations regarding the attack on Adalah's and ACRI by the State Attorney's office
In the response of the Attorney General’s office to the amicus brief filed to the High Court of Justice on 29 May 2007 by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) regarding the revocation of the residency in Israel of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from East Jerusalem. (High Court of Justice case 7803/06), senior attorneys from the State Attorney’s Office attacked the human rights organization.
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