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Torture & abuse under interrogation

Kept in the Dark

Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Petach- Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency
Joint report with Hamoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual
October 2010

The report exposes routine ill-treatment of Palestinians in interrogations. The findings, based on testimonies of 121 Palestinians, show they were subjected to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and in some cases, also to torture. The report calls on Israel to cease the illegal practices, punish the offenders, and compensate the victims.

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2007 Annual Report

Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
December 2007

According to the report, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip dropped. However, there has been deterioration in many other measures of the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories.

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Absolute Prohibition

The Torture and Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees
Joint report with Hamoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual
May 2007

The ISA routinely maltreats Palestinian detainees during interrogations and in some cases even tortures them. This is one of the findings of the report issued today by B'Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual.

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Torture of Palestinian Minors at the Gush Etzion Police Station

July 2001
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Legislation Allowing the Use of Physical Force and Mental Coercion in Interrogations by the General Security Service

January 2000
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Israeli Violations of Human Rights of Lebanese Civilians

January 2000
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Oslo: Before and After

The Status of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
May 1999
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Routine Torture

Interrogation Methods of the General Security Service
February 1998
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1987-1997: A Decade of Human Rights Violations

January 1998
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Legitimizing Torture

The Israeli High Court of Justice Rulings in the Bilbeisi, Hamdan and Mubarak Cases
January 1997
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Human Rights in the Occupied Territories since the Oslo Accords

Joint report with The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
December 1996
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Neither Law Nor Justice

Extrajudicial Punishment, Abduction, Unlawful Arrest and Torture of Palestinian Residents of the West Bank by the Palestinian Preventive Security Service
August 1995
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Detention and Interrogation of Salem and Hanan "Ali," Husband and Wife, Residents of Bani Na'im Village

June 1995

No. 6

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Torture During Interrogations

Testimony of Palestinian Detainees, Testimony of Interrogators
November 1994
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Bi-Annual Report 1992/1993

Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
January 1994
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