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PCATI issues update to 2009 report on ISA Impunity

30.01.2012

PCATI Updates its Report on Impunity: In 2012 despite Israel's Attorney General's pledge to reform the torture complaints investigation process there has been no change. The result: "Accountability Still Denied" 

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Doctoring the Evidence Abandoning the Victim

03.11.2011

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.

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Attorney General’s complete abstention from ordering the opening of criminal investigations against GSS interrogators suspected

14.02.2011

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.

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When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Incommunicado Holding of Palestinian Detainees

28.12.2010

A new report from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel exposes:
ISA illegal & systematically prevents Palestinian detainees from meeting with an attorney
Comprehensive study of thousands of Palestinian detainees done in conjunction with   a Palestinian prisoners' rights organization reveals sweeping ISA prevention of detainee meetings with a lawyer during lengthy interrogations

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HAARETZ Headline:Health Min., Israel Medical Association probing

14.03.2010

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

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10 years, Hundreds of Complaints, No Investigations

Accountability Denied
28.12.2009

A new report by PCATI exposes an intolerable reality. Israeli authorities systematically prevent investigations of complaints of torture against General Security Service (GSS) interrogators. 

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HCJ: Using threats, false promises and false presentations relating to the welfare of relatives of interrogees is prohibited

09.09.2009

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.

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The "Torture Ruling" - Ten Years After

02.09.2009

Special issue of PCATI's newsletter marking 10 years since the "Torture Ruling".

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HCJ rejected the contempt of court Petition filed by PCATI and other organizations

06.07.2009

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.

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