Israeli Unaccountability and Denial: Suppressing the Practice of Torture
Aletho / Aletho
24-Feb-2010 (one comment)

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI – stoptorture.org)
“believes that torture and ill-treatment of any kind and under all
circumstances is incompatible with the moral values of democracy and the
rule of law.” Yet it’s systematically practiced by the Israeli Police,
General Security Service (GSS), Israeli Prison Service (IPS), and
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

In December 2009, PACTI published its latest report titled,
“Accountability Denied: The Absence of Investigation and Punishment of
Torture in Israel,” explaining “the many layers of immunity that
protect” the guilty, specifically the GSS, the focus of this report.

Immunity insures that GSS interrogation torture and abuse complaints
never become criminal investigations, indictments, or legal hearings.
Israel’s State Attorney and Attorney General assure it “under a systemic
legal cloak” giving torturers “unrestricted protection.”

Since 2001, victims submitted over 600 torture complaints to
authorities. None were investigated – “the first step” before
indictments, prosecutions, and convictions. As a result, GSS
interrogators have blanket immunity to operate freely “behind closed
doors (making) torture an institutionalized method of interrogation in
Israel, enjoying the full backing of the legal system.” As in America,
torture is official Israeli ... >>>

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AsteroidX

The Iranian authorities are

by AsteroidX on Thu Feb 25, 2010 04:04 AM PST

The Iranian authorities are using prolonged harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to extract false confessions from detainees arrested since the disputed June 12 presidential election, Human Rights Watch has said. The confessions appear designed to support unsubstantiated allegations by senior government officials that Iran's post-election protests, in which at least 20 people were killed, were supported by foreign powers and aimed at overthrowing the government.

 All of this violates Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party.

//www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm#art14

And the UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states, "No detained person while being interrogated shall be subject to violence, threats or methods of interrogation which impair his capacity of decision or judgment." Are you going to support the treatment of opposition supporters by IRI?

This is not including allegations of rape and murder through torture.


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