הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.