Summary
Author of Al-Haq’s Torture for Security: The Systematic Torture And Ill-Treatment of Palestinians by Israel, in which al-Haq’s work on international humanitarian law and international human rights law came together (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.197).
Details
- The study was the result of a marathon fieldwork and research effort involving detailed interviews with over seven hundred former detainees in the West Bank and Gaza, first selected randomly and then targeting persons known to have been interrogated while in Israeli custody (PDF p.197).
- Its findings, with the analysis of policy and statements by Israeli government officials, pointed to “a systematic and, indeed, institutionalized use of torture both to intimidate and to extract information” (PDF p.197).
- The documentation collected by the field-workers from 1990 covered the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody over the first four years of the intifada, 1988–92; the study pointed out that “what is new is that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians detained have been tortured” (PDF p.197-198).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq, Landau Commission