הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

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.

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.

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.

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 (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"

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.

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.

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

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.