# UN committee on torture
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Kind: **gov**

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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/906689ac) — asserted
- [The inspector charged with investigating complaints on interrogations had brought no criminal prosecutions for acts of torture and ill‑treatment over the past…](https://truthscore.com/claim/9d8151ff) — asserted
- [The UN committee expressed deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress…](https://truthscore.com/claim/c94efccf) — asserted
- [The committee found that the seven‑month sentence appears not to reflect the severity of the offence](https://truthscore.com/claim/cf4e2acc) — asserted
- [The UN committee raised concern about the wholesale use of Israel’s unlawful combatants law to justify prolonged detention without trial of thousands of…](https://truthscore.com/claim/dd3ee2b7) — asserted

## Statements attributed to it

- [Israel has a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture](https://truthscore.com/claim/ae69c98b) — independent
- [The committee found that the seven‑month sentence appears not to reflect the severity of the offence](https://truthscore.com/claim/cf4e2acc) — independent
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/fef95494) — independent