Slippery Slope

A complaint has been filed with the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department against a police man from Tel-Aviv district who is suspected of using a tazer against a detainee at the Bat-Yam police station, while the detainee, who suffers from mental illness, was handcuffed and hiding behind an investigator in one of the station’s rooms.

(Hebrew – Walla!)

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel is set to file a petition to the High Court of Justice over the closure of an investigation against two policemen suspected of beating a security detainee at an Israel Police station in the West Bank. This, despite the existence of evidence against the policemen. The two policemen are suspected of abusing a  27-year-old detainee, Mohammed Ibrahim Warani from the Palestinian village Al ‘Eizariya. Two weeks after the arrest Warani complained that he was beaten as soon as he arrived at the station. A physical examination corroborated his allegation. The Internal Investigations Unit cited the fact that no one else at the police station reported hearing anything out of the ordinary from the interrogation room in explanation of its decision.

A police officer from the Ayalon District was taken in for questioning by the Internal Affairs Division, on suspicion of involvement in several cases of abusing detainees using a stun gun.

(Hebrew)