UN to examine Israel's torture record

[struggle4progress]

Source: Jersusalem Post

May 4, 2009 0:26 | Updated May 4, 2009 10:14
By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND HERB KEINON

There has been a 15 percent rise in the number of Palestinian patients whom Israel has interrogated and forced to provide information on Hamas or to serve as spies as a precondition to leaving Gaza for medical care, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel plans to tell the UN in Geneva on Monday.

According to the NGO, the proportions of applicants interrogated at the Erez crossing to northern Gaza rose from 1.45% in January 2008 to 17% in January 2009.

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is one of at least eight NGOs that have submitted testimony to the UN Committee Against Torture, which this week is reviewing Israel's record.

This year the UN is examining Israel as well as Chad, Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Philippines as part of periodic reviews that it does of all nations ...


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[cali]

1. I wish they'd add the Democratic Republic of the Congo

to that list, as well as the U.S., Uganda and Iraq.

[struggle4progress]

2. Why not look for the info before you post? There's a universal review schedule,

which you can access from the Council website. Congo's on the schedule this year; Iran and the US are next year; Uganda's 2011

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRmain.aspx

[cali]

3. why not have posted that link in the first place, dear?

[struggle4progress]

4. Because the link was in response to your post, which you had not yet posted

when I posted the OP

Perhaps if you had been thoughtful enough post your responses to my posts, before I post, rather than after, I could have considered addressing your responses to my OPs in the OPs themselves -- rather than providing them as responses to your responses to my OPs, since you apparently find such responses to responses somehow reprehensible

:eyes:

[The Stranger]

5. I guess you're supposed to miraculously anticipate everyone's question in advance?

(including this one?)

:shrug:

[Vidar]

6. Thank you. That's encouraging.

[marshalljones]

7. Re : UN to examine Israel's torture record

There has been a 15 percent rise in the number of Palestinian patients whom Israel has interrogated and forced to provide information on Hamas or to serve as spies as a precondition to leaving Gaza for medical care, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel plans to tell the UN in Geneva on Monday.Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is one of at least eight NGOs that have submitted testimony to the UN Committee Against Torture, which this week is reviewing Israel's record<http://samsonblinded.org/news>.