Summary
Amendment No. 6 (2012) to the Criminal Procedure Law on interrogating suspects, extending the exemption of security suspects from the audiovisual recording requirement to July 2015, which Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws Database presents in a Description-only entry (Discriminatory Laws Database, lines 1281-1315).
Details
- The amendment was passed on 4 July 2012. The 2002 law required audiovisual recording of interrogations of suspects charged with crimes carrying a sentence of at least ten years (the entry says a minimum sentence, as printed), with recording of security suspects to become mandatory from 2008 under Article 17; a 2008 temporary order extended the exemption to July 2012, and Amendment No. 6 extends it to July 2015. The recording requirement does not apply to the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also GSS or Shabak) (lines 1294-1296).
- Adalah’s account is that almost all security detainees are Palestinians from the occupied territories or Palestinian citizens of Israel (line 1294).
- Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Al Mezan and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) petitioned on 21 December 2010 to cancel the exemption; the petition, cited in the entry as HCJ 9416 with no year suffix, was dismissed in February 2013 on the justification that a new Knesset had just been elected and the government promised a thorough examination (lines 1298, 1310-1314).
Related pages
Discriminatory Laws Database, Adalah, Al Mezan, Criminal Procedure (Detainee Suspected of Security Offence) (Temporary Order) Amendment No. 4, 2015