Interrogation

In its landmark 1999 ruling on torture, the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed certain inhumane and degrading methods of interrogations of Palestinian security suspects. Yet, 14 years later, the...

The Criminal Procedures (Detainees Suspected of Security Offenses) Law, originally legislated as a temporary order valid for just 18 month has been extended for nine years (from 2006 and until its...

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...

(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...

HCJ 9416/10 Adalah v. Ministry of Public Security

In a letter to MK David Rotem, the Chairman of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, dated 21 October 2010, Adalah demanded that a new bill, which amends the Criminal Procedure...

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...

Today 18 May 2010, Mr. Ameer Makhoul, the director of the Arab NGO network "Ittijah" and a human rights defender, met with his legal defense team after the order prohibiting his meeting with a...

Today, 24 March 2009, at a hearing held before an expanded panel of nine justices of the Israeli Supreme Court, three human rights organizations - The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel,...

The law allows for the arrest of suspects for long periods without any judicial oversight, for deliberations to take place in their absence, and for the decision to extend their detention to be...

The metaphor of the Gaza Strip as the world’s largest prison is unfortunately outdated. Israel now treats the Strip more like a zoo. For running a prison is about constraining or repressing...

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...

Every few months the entire country is scandalized by the discovery of another investigation in the course of which the persons being interrogated confessed to a crime they did not commit. While...

Yesterday, 12 May 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding that he issue an order requiring the General Security Services (GSS) to record all interrogations of suspects,...

Today, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Jamal Mustafa Khueil, a resident of Jenin refugee camp who was detained by the Israeli army...