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|Published October 24, 2014Legal experts cannot erase Israel's history of torture
Since
2001 over 850 complaints of torture have been submitted by
Palestinians. Not a single criminal investigation has been opened.
By Dr. Ishai Menuhin
Whenever
Israel signs a treaty, international standards require it to come up
with creative bypasses and convoluted legal answers for its actions. At
the same, the Israeli government finds it difficult to implement the
commitments it has taken upon itself in our name. This is because both
the General Security Service (GSS) and the broader Israeli security
establishment are interested in violating the human rights of those they interrogate, rather than observe international standards and rules.
On Monday,
Israeli representatives presented the state’s position before the UN
Human Rights Committee in Geneva regarding country’s commitment to theInternational Convention on Civil and Political Rights, which Israel signed in 1966 and ratified in 1991.
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