U.N. Human Rights Committee Holds Israeli Interrogating Unlawful

IMPORTANT: The full content of this page is available to premium users only.

Sunday, June 1, 1997
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
13
Issue: 
6
244-246
Abstract: 
On May 9, 1997, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) criticized and found in violation of the Torture Convention the Israeli techniques in interrogating suspected terrorists, including violent shaking, painful restraints and sleep deprivation, as state-sanctioned torture ... [more]