UN committee on torture

Also written as: the UN committee · the committee · the UN committee of 10 independent experts

Involved in

• The UN committee heard evidence from representatives of the foreign ministry, justice ministry and prison service who argued that prison conditions were adequate and subject to supervision

  asserted 0 evidentiary legs

• The inspector charged with investigating complaints on interrogations had brought no criminal prosecutions for acts of torture and ill‑treatment over the past two years

  asserted 0 evidentiary legs

• The UN committee expressed deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions and sexual violence

  asserted 0 evidentiary legs

• The committee found that the seven‑month sentence appears not to reflect the severity of the offence

  asserted 0 evidentiary legs

• The UN committee raised concern about the wholesale use of Israel’s unlawful combatants law to justify prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children

  asserted 0 evidentiary legs

Statements attributed to it

• Israel has a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture

  independent asserted

• The committee found that the seven‑month sentence appears not to reflect the severity of the offence

  independent asserted

• An Israeli soldier was sentenced in February 2025 for repeatedly attacking bound and blindfolded detainees from Gaza with his fists, a baton and his assault rifle

  independent asserted

Voices are counted, never weighed. This is a record of what this entity has been recorded as saying — not a measure of whether it is right.

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