Moderate Torture on Trial: Critical Reflections on the Israeli Supreme Court Judgement concerning the Legality of General Security Service Interrogation Methods
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On September 6, 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel, sitting as the High Court of Justice ("HCJ"), 2 ruled on a governmental policy that has long been the subject of intense international criticism: Israel's use of torture on Palestinian detainees interrogated by its secret police, the General Security Service ("GSS"). 3 Since a 1987 governmental commission recommended that the GSS employ "moderate physical and psychological pressure" on Palestinians suspected of "security" offenses, the use of interrogation methods amounting to
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