Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index From Office of the high commissioner: "(b) Since the State party admits to hooding, shackling in painful positions, sleep deprivation and shaking of detainees (through its delegates and courts, and supported by the findings of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture)7 the bare assertion that it is "not severe" is not in and of itself sufficient to satisfy the State's burden and justify such conduct. This is particularly so when reliable evidence from detainees and independent medical evidence made available to Israel reinforce the contrary conclusion;" External Links United Nations Human Rights Commission's Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture : Israel, 9 May 1997. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.