"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency may be invoked as a justification of torture.'' -- UN Convention against Torture


BZU WEBSITE LINKS

• Mohammad Hamdan Issued with Administrative Detention: After 62-day interrogation, Hamdan ordered detained without charge -- Public Relations Press Release (UPDATE) 26 December 1996
  
• Mohammad Hamdan Returned to Russian Compound after Two Days at the Lebanese Border -- Public Relations Press Release (UPDATE) 30 November 1996
  
• Birzeit University Gravely Concerned about Safety of Student Mohammed Hamdan: Israeli High Court Permits Use of Violence in Interrogation -- Human Rights Action Project Press Release - 7 November 1996
  
• Three Years after Oslo: Israel's Ongoing & Arbitrary Detention and Harassment of Birzeit University Students Contradicts Peace -- Human Rights Action Project Update - 18 September 1996
  
• "From the Road to Athens to a Concrete Dungeon."
  Reflections written by Mohammed Abu Obeid.
  Birzeit Human Rights Record No. 17 (April-September 1996)
  
• "High Court Allows Physical Pressure in Interrogation"
  Birzeit Human Rights Record No. 16 (August 1995-March 1996)
  
• "Khalid Yassin Farraj"
  Birzeit Human Rights Record No. 15 (April-July 1995)
  
• "Torture and Ill-Treatment"
  Birzeit Human Rights Record No. 14 (June 1994-March 1995)
  

LINKS

• Concluding Observations - Eighteenth session : Israel. UN Committee against Torture (04/11/97).
  
• Oral Statement to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Israeli Occupied Territories. A statement by Amnesty International (11 March 1997).
  
• Israel's Interrogation Policies and Practices. Israel's Response to Concerns about Interrogation prepared by Adv. Tamar Gaulan, Director, Human Rights and International Relations Department, Ministry of Justice, State of Israel (December 1996).
  
• Committee against Torture, Consideration of reports submitted by States Parties under article 19 of the Convention, Israel, UN Doc. A/49/44 at 24 (Forty-ninth session, 1994).
  
• Stop Torture Now! Amnesty International's Ongoing Campaign
  
• B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Ocupied Territories) Publications on Torture & Ill-Treatment Regularly updated.
  
• Torture and Ill-Treatment: Israel’s Interrogation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories Human Rights Watch/Middle East Report (June 1994)
  
• Derechos Links on Human Rights in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority