New York Times · 6 May 1995
CP-1995-008
Israel Widely Mistreats the Detainees
Transcribed from the clipping
“The 1987 Landau Commission — in the words of the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) — ‘ended up legitimating the use of torture’ with its sanction of ‘moderate physical pressure.’”
Context added by this archive
A reader answering the 1 May 1995 article on the torture death of Abd al-Samed Hreizat, which is also in this archive. The reader supplies what the news article did not: the name of the commission, the year, and an Israeli human rights organization’s judgment of what it did. The minister being corrected is Yossi Sarid.
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"Israel Widely Mistreats the Detainees," New York Times, 6 May 1995. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1995-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1995-008
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