Torture and cruel‚ inhumane‚ and degrading treatment
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2014-06-26
In an exceptional move, Professor Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and Mr. Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on...
2014-06-26
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, four Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations – Adalah, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel...
2014-06-25
Training course consisted of five meetings over a period of five weeks, and aimed to prepare lawyers and provide them with necessary tools and legal strategies to handle cases of prisoners and...
2014-06-24
Attorney Zaher: \"The shackling of prisoners in this manner prevents them from using the bathroom properly, which constitutes a grave breach of the constitutional rights of hunger-striking...
Severely ill Palestinian prisoners endure 12-hour trips under harsh conditions to hospitals or court
2013-06-12
Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli prisons must endure appalling conditions during their transport to health care facilities and courts, subjected to ill treatment, pain, and suffering,...
2013-02-10
Israeli Supreme Court Rejects Petition against Law Exempting GSS from Recording Interrogations of Security Suspects; Decision Completely Contradicts New Recommendations of Turkel Committee On 7...
2012-09-19
On 31 August 2012, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) posed a list of 26 questions (“the List of Issues Prior to Reporting,” LOIPR) regarding Israel’s compliance with the International...
2012-07-30
Adalah submitted two administrative appeals to the Magistrate Court in Beer el-Sabe (Beer Sheva) on 26 July 2012 seeking permission for an independent doctor to visit two detainees, Wa’il Kamil...
2012-07-04
(Haifa, Israel) On 2 July 2012, Adalah sent a letter to members of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee demanding that they reject another extension of a sweeping exemption for...
2012-06-26
Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights are pleased to announce the publication of our journal, “On Torture”. “On Torture” is an edited volume of...
'On Torture' is the result of an expert workshop on the persistent and pervasive use of torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The journal presents documentation...
2012-06-14
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), Adalah, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) submitted a briefing paper to the UN Human Rights...
2011-09-01
(Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israel) Today, 1 September 2011, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), together with its partners Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Al...
2011-06-26
On 21 June 2011, to mark the International Day Against Torture, Adalah and several human rights organization partners hosted an event to launch a new edited volume entitled Threat: Palestinian...
In its ruling of September 1999, the Supreme Court prohibited the use of a number of methods of interrogation and torture and ruled that the GSS has no authority to use violent means of...
2010-06-28
A new position paper by three human rights organizations, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL), Al-Mezan and Adalah, reviews Israel's exit policy at the Erez Crossing regarding Gaza patients...
At a very high cost, the US case confirms that torture does not work by any measure. No modern regime or society is more secure as a result of torture. Its use spreads, its harms multiply, and its...
2007-10-28
On 25 October 2007, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Deputy State Attorney, Shai Nitzan and the Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit demanding that they make public the measures and...
2007-08-20
On 16 August 2007, Adalah sent a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Security, the Head of the General Security Services (GSS) and the Attorney General, following an...
