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Torture and ill treatment by Israeli Security Agency persists

By Brandy Ringer

Ishai Menuchin [Executive Director, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel]: "The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel welcomes B'Tselem and Hamoked's recent report, "Kept in the Dark" which is an important study of one particular Shin Bet interrogation center over a limited period of time. PCATI's ongoing and daily work in the field on the issue of treatment of detainees at arrest and during interrogation, which has been made available to the public and to policy maker over the years, has made it clear that torture and ill treatment continues to be used by Israel's Security Agency (ISA, also known as the GSS) and this in direct violation of a

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).