PCATI issues update to 2009 report on ISA Impunity
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"
More...Doctoring the Evidence Abandoning the Victim
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.
More...Attorney 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...When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Incommunicado Holding of Palestinian Detainees
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
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
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: Using threats, false promises and false presentations relating to the welfare of relatives of interrogees is prohibited
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.
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.
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