Monitoring torture and politically-motivated violence in Israel and Palestine
RCT´s member of the International Forensic Expert Group, Dr. Jens Modvig gave a speech on medical documentation during the international conference entitled “Monitoring torture, towards an efficient national plan” on the 30th of June 2010 in the West Bank.
The main objective of the conference was to come up with
action-oriented recommendations and efficient mechanisms regarding
monitoring torture and politically-motivated violence practiced
against the Palestinians in the Israeli jails and Palestinian
detention centers. It also aimed at highlighting the issue of
Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prisons and their daily
sufferings from the torture policies inflicted against them.
About 400 participants attended the conference which was organized
by TRC, the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of
Torture, in partnership with the UN high commissioner office for
human rights in the Palestinian territories.
The conference was initiated by an opening session , in which Dr.
Salam Fayyad , the Palestinian prime Minister ; Dr. Mahmud Sehwail
, TRC's executive president ; and Eva Tomic , the head of the UN
High Commissioner Office for Human Rights gave their welcome words
and displayed the purposes behind organizing such conference.
Read the complete press release at the TRC
homepage