New York Times · 3 April 1992

CP-1992-017

Israeli Study Finds Torture Common

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“The commission of inquiry into Shin Bet practices said ‘moderate physical pressure’…”

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An Israeli study, in the headline, five years after the Landau Commission. The case it turns on is Mustafa Akawi, who died in Israeli custody in February 1992. Israel’s answer, printed here, is that investigators are strictly forbidden to use violence or even the threat of it.

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"Israeli Study Finds Torture Common," New York Times, 3 April 1992. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1992-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1992-017

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