NGO tells UN: Israeli torture of Palestinian, Ethiopian, migrant detainees continues

An NGO told the UN Committee on Torture in Geneva on Monday that while Israel has made certain improvements in recent years, that its apparatus still tortures and abuses Palestinian detainees, as well as shining a new focus on what it says is the same issue with Ethiopian and illegal African migrant detainees – particularly by police.

 

Neither the Justice Ministry, nor the Police Investigations Department, nor the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) nor the police had officially responded by press time, but representatives of the state are expected to address some of the issues before the committee on Tuesday.

 

The NGO, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), flagged two issues as being somewhat more novel in a long battle over other issues which has seen fewer changes.

 

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