Examples of using Interrogees in English and their translations into Hebrew
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SA's testimony is similar to the testimonies of other interrogees in Facility 1391.
The interrogees receive kosher food, and there were no complaints about their quality or quantity of food.".
This report presents six cases of the use of family members against interrogees suspected of security offenses.
Interrogees' complaints about their torture by ISA interrogators are examined through an internal review mechanism.
This report presents six cases of the use of family members against interrogees suspected of security offenses.
These measures are not inevitable side-effects of the necessities of detention and interrogation,but are rather intended to break the spirit of the interrogees.
Nonetheless, the ISA continues to torture Palestinian interrogees using"routine" and"unusual" methods, including all those banned by the HCJ.
To instruct the ISA to halt immediately and completely the use ofall interrogation methods that injure the dignity or physical integrity of interrogees;
Two positions of“routine binding” cause interrogees severe pain and suffering“especially through pressure and excessive tightening of the binds on the upper arm or the forearm.
Report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel on the phenomenon of usingthreats to harm relatives as a means of pressuring interrogees in ISA interrogations.
It should be emphasized that during the hearings, the judges asked the interrogees about their situation during the hearings, and as stated, no complaints were raised on these matters by them.
Report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel on the phenomenon of usingthreats to harm relatives as a means of pressuring interrogees in ISA interrogations.
In addition, it was dictated in the guidelines that“the shackling of interrogees above the age of 65 and those under 16, as well as women, requires approval be granted by the managing echelon”.
The report also presents testimonies from those defined as"ticking bombs" and details the interrogation methods used in such cases-methods which put the interrogees' life in danger.
The interrogees' complaints comptroller(himself a member of the ISA), and his supervisor at the Ministry of Justice, promote the sweeping closure of hundreds of complaints, without criminal investigation, indictment or prosecution.
Pressure and a measure of discomfort are legitimate, according to this judgment, only as a side-effect of the necessities of the interrogation andnot as a means for breaking the interrogees' spirit.
The report includes testimonies of dozens of interrogees who describe the different interrogation methods and other violent practices outside the interrogation rooms- beatings, withholding of food, prolonged binding, degradation and various threats.
In January 2012 Boaz Lev, the Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health, appointed a committee to which medicalstaff are supposed to report cases of interrogees who show signs of damage to their health.
Many interrogees, whom the GSS defined as“ticking bombs,” were tortured during interrogations on weekdays, while on weekends, when the interrogators did not work, the“bombs” stopped“ticking” until Sunday, when the process started over again.
This immunity has, over the past decade, led to the shelving of over 650 complaints submitted to Israel'sAttorney General against those suspected of torturing GSS interrogees, without the opening of a single criminal investigation.
The HCJ did rule that ISA interrogators who abused interrogees in"ticking bomb" situations may be exempted from criminal liability, but this only when the ill-treatment was used as a spontaneous response by an individual interrogator to an unexpected occurrence.
Despite the harsh criticism expressed in reports of the State Comptroller and the State Attorney's Office- concluding that the ISA interrogators were knowingly, systematically and severely deviating from the Landau Commission recommendations-the security forces continued to torture interrogees, inter alia, at Secret Facility 1391 and the Al-Khiam Prison in South Lebanon.
In June 2003, an additional PCATI report,based on testimonies of 48 interrogees, finds that the HCJ's attempt to allow torture"only" in extreme conditions- as when the interrogator's act in an"isolated case" is improvised and can be recognized as legal"only" retroactively- has completely failed.
In the petitions, based on the interrogees' testimonies, HaMoked contends that the ISA interrogation methods are inconsistent with Israeli law and the international conventions to which Israel is signatory, and that the"necessity defense" clause does not provide a priori permission to use illegal methods.
Reports by HaMoked and other human rights organizations,written on the basis of interrogees' testimonies, expose the routine practice of torture and ill-treatment, and detail the interrogation methods used to inflict pain and suffering, both physical and psychological- all under the auspices of the law enforcement system, and in violation of both Israeli and international law.
The PCATI report, based on the testimonies of 12 interrogees, finds that despite the HCJ ruling- which represented a significant change in the right direction, but also preserved the concept that an interrogator may consider torture a legitimate option- the ISA continues to torture Palestinians regularly, using"routine" and"special" methods, employing all of the interrogation methods banned by the HCJ.