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Blindfolding Security Prisoners in Public Areas in Prisons
Illustrative. Photo created using AI On December 31, 2024, ACRI approached the Prison Service Commissioner and the Government's Legal...
Jan 131 min read
Release the Public Defender's Inspection Reports on Prison Conditions
On January 6, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a Freedom of Information petition demanding the disclosure of...
Jan 61 min read
Illegal Prison Conditions at Anatot Detention Center
Savconstantine, Dreamstime.com On December 16, 2024, the Association for Civil Rights appealed to the Chief Military Prosecutor,...
Dec 25, 20242 min read
Discrimination Among Prisoners in Eligibility for Extended Administrative Release
Severe overcrowding in Israeli prisons prompted the Knesset to establish a mechanism allowing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to grant...
Nov 27, 20242 min read
Sweeping Use of "Combat Detention" in the West Bank
Since the outbreak of the war, all Palestinians arrested in the West Bank for offenses under security legislation have been detained in...
Nov 5, 20243 min read
Publishing Humiliating Images of Detainees by the Police
On 29.10.2023, we appealed (Hebrew) to the Attorney General and the Police Commissioner, demanding that the police stop photographing...
Oct 8, 20243 min read
One Year of War: The Collapse of Human and Civil Rights Protections in Israel and the West Bank
A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank Over a Year of War Since the horrific massacre carried out by...
Oct 7, 20243 min read
Close the Sde Teman Detention Center
On May 23, 2024, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel...
Sep 18, 20243 min read
Repeal the Ban on Red Cross Visits to Palestinian Prisoners
On February 22, 2024, ACRI, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked and Gisha petitioned the High Court of Justice (Hebrew) demanding that...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
Scabies Epidemic in Prisons
ACRI joined the petition, led by Physicians for Human Rights, regarding the scabies epidemic raging in prisons. The petition, which was...
Jul 21, 20241 min read
End the Policy of Starving Security Prisoners
Following a series of testimonies by prisoners and their lawyers, including statements by representatives of the IPS and the Minister of...
Jun 30, 20242 min read
ACRI's Position on the Youth Law
Association for Civil Rights in Israel Position on The Youth Law (Adjudication, Penalizing and Manners of Treatment) (Amendment - Arrest...
Jun 5, 20241 min read
East Jerusalem in the Shadow of War
Following the murderous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a protracted war in Gaza, at the cost of extensive harm to...
Apr 8, 20242 min read
The Red Cross Visitations of Hostages and Prisoners – Questions and Answers
Since October 7, questions and claims have been raised in the public discourse about the role of the Red Cross in relation to Israeli...
Feb 21, 20241 min read
Overcrowding in Prisons and Detention Centers in Israel
On 12.3.2014, along with the College of Law and Business and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, ACRI filed a petition to the High...
Jan 28, 20248 min read
The Judicial Overhaul in the Shadow of the War: Attack on Democracy and Human Rights Continues
Even before the terrorist attack Hamas perpetrated on October 7, and before the war broke out, Israeli democracy was facing severe...
Dec 20, 20232 min read
To Hold Official Visits of Judges to the Prisons
According to the Prison Ordinance, all judges in Israel, including Supreme Court justices, are official inspectors in prisons by virtue...
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Detaining Prisoners in Overcrowded Conditions Without Beds During a State of Emergency in Detention
The Association for Civil Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Committee Against Torture petitioned the High Court on 23.10.2023...
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Violation of Prisoners' Rights in the Context of the Gaza War
On October 7, 2023, with the beginning of the war, a communication from the Prisoners' Ombudsman and the Minister of National Security...
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Enabling Palestinian Security Prisoners Contact With Their Families During Covid
Following the petition of HaMoked and seven other human rights organizations, including ACRI, the Israel Prison Service announced that,...
Apr 8, 20212 min read
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