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A commemorative photo was taken featuring the members of the General Assembly of the Association of Detainees and Missing of Sednaya Prison during their first visit to the prison after its liberation. They all endured bitter years of suffering in its depths and darkness, witnessing firsthand the worst crimes committed by its administration and guards. They also lived through the infamous siege that occurred in 2008.
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IMLU held a training needs assessment with @NPSOfficial_KE, @DCI_Kenya, to strengthen police training and capacity. IMLU emphasized that training should focus on attitudes and behaviour change and skills transfer. This joint effort strengthens professionalism and accountability.
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♦️The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the escalation of settler attacks, the latest of which involved the burning of a mosque and a commercial facility over the past few days. This attack is part of a broader violence supported by the Israeli government across the West Bank.
These two crimes are part of a wider strategy of violence carried out by settlers under the protection of the Israeli Occupation Forces. They represent a direct extension of the genocidal, ethnically cleansing, and apartheid policies imposed on Palestinians. These incidents are not isolated, but rather components of a systematic campaign aimed at displacing the indigenous population and forcibly subjugating the land.
Read the full statement via link in bio
pchrgaza.org/?p=37707
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Day 2 of our 3-Day Peer Support Training ✅
Today’s focus was on building practical skills — from active listening to understanding the role of empathy in survivor-led care. Participants worked in groups and supported one another in ways that reflect the essence of peer support.
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Israeli forces weaponize gender in torture of Palestinians from #Gaza.
DIGNITY’s Grant Shubin shows how gender roles are exploited — emasculating men, sexualizing women, and targeting reproductive health.
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“Those who came to our very first clinic in Minnesota 40 years ago included people who had suffered unspeakable horrors and lost everything, often simply because they opposed tyranny and injustice,” said @SAdamsR2P, CVT president and CEO. Part 1 of 2:
cvt.org/articles/cvt-40th-an…
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We condemn in the strongest terms the draconian sanctions imposed by The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on our organisations: @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter & @pchrgaza -1/3
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🇲🇽 Weaving threads of resistance in #Mexico
In 2024, survivors of torture and family members came together for the first National Meeting of Victims of Torture, led by local organisations like CEPAD, Fundar, and the Red Nacional de Peritos, with OMCT’s support.
Torture survivors and families shared their struggles with impunity, stigma, and repression — but also the roots of their resilience: family, community, faith, and collective action.
💬 “Despite the processes of pain, this document reflects the affection, solidarity and those threads woven to resist this path," – torture survivor and participant.
Read the full story and discover how survivors are shaping the anti-torture movement in Mexico: 🔗 bit.ly/4lSY9dd
#UnitedAgainstTorture #EndTorture #Mexico #HumanRightsDefenders
@apt_geneva @FIACAT_org @IRCT @Omega_RF
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Field researchers and members of the legal team at the Palestinian Centre for #HumanRights interviewed 100 Palestinian former detainees arrested by Israel in #Gaza between October 2023 and 2024.
The report 'Torture and Genocide' found that in addition to severe deprivation of food, detainees were subjected to violence and humiliating conditions related to access to food and water.
Interviewees were forced to eat and/or drink while handcuffed and/or blindfolded. Some detainees were kicked, punched, or beaten with sticks for asking for food and/or water. Soldiers would place food and snacks in front of detainees which they could not reach while laughing and insulting them, or even eating in front of the hungry detainees.
Read PCHR’s report: ⤵️
🔗pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uplo…
🔗 Share and subscribe to help us stand #UnitedAgainstTorture with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), and the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre (TRC) as we demand our Governments to #EndTheGenocide and #StopTorture
@IRCT
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♦️Since launching its genocidal war on #Gaza, Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, almost all without charge. Simply being from Gaza was enough to warrant detention, ill-treatment and often #torture, as Israeli investigators sought information on Hamas and the hostages it holds.
🔗 Share and subscribe to help us stand #UnitedAgainstTorture as we demand our Governments to #EndTheGenocide and #StopTorture
@IRCT
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📝📄📢 Since 7 October 2023, Israel has launched one of the most violent assaults on the Gaza Strip, causing catastrophic harm to its 2.3 million residents and continuing decades of systemic oppression since 1948.
📄 PCHR’s report, Voices of the Genocide, based on 1,225 victim and eyewitness interviews and extensive evidence, documents mass killings, starvation, destruction, forced displacement, and other acts demonstrating the ongoing genocide. It also presents direct statements by Israeli officials and applies legal analysis under the 1948 Genocide Convention, urging immediate international action.
@RajiSourani , Director of PCHR, described the genocidal crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, stating:
💬 “From the very first moment of the aggression against the Gaza Strip, it was clear to us, as human rights defenders and eyewitnesses, that we were witnessing genocide. The nature of the attacks—including aerial bombardments on residential neighborhoods and vital civilian infrastructure, widespread killing and destruction, forced displacement, and the deliberate starvation of civilians—combined with the initial statements of political and military leaders of the Israeli occupation, constitutes a campaign of genocide targeting the entire Gaza Strip. The fundamental principle of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is immediate intervention to prevent such acts before they occur. It is a disgrace to the so-called civilized world to stand powerless, complicit, or supportive of the Israeli occupation as it continues to perpetrate this crime over more than 21 months.”
🔗Read our full report here:
pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uplo…
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IMS is taking part in a global campaign, coordinated by @Avaaz and @RSF_inter, demanding that Palestinian journalists be protected from Israel's ongoing and systematic effort to silence them, including by killing them, and that international journalists be given access to Gaza.
ALT At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza
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כמעט שנתיים שישראל מבצעת ג'נוסייד ברצועת עזה. ישראל פועלת בצורה שיטתית ומכוונת להרס של החברה הפלסטינית בעזה באמצעות הרג המוני, פגיעה חמורה בגוף ובנפש ויצירת תנאי חיים קטסטרופליים שלא יאפשרו לה להמשיך ולהתקיים בעזה.
ישראל מרעיבה את שני מיליון תושבי הרצועה, ומקדמת בצורה גלויה ומוצהרת טיהור אתני והרס מלא של כל התשתיות שמאפשרות חיים, הן של אינדיבידואלים והן של הקבוצה כולה. תושבי עזה – עקורים, מופצצים, מורעבים, מופשטים מאנושיותם ומופקרים למוות על ידי העולם. הג'נוסייד קורה כאן, עכשיו.
הערב 20:30 תתארח מנכ"לית הארגון יולי נובק אצל @imahot4 לשיחה על הג'נוסייד ברצועת עזה
להרשמה >>
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IRCT retweeted
A new step has been taken towards uncovering the fate of forcibly disappeared persons and embodying the importance of joint efforts in this humanitarian issue, as today the support platform for the National Commission for Missing Persons in Syria was launched. This significant achievement comes in cooperation between the Commission, the Association of Prisoners and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison, and Syrian civil society organizations, opening new horizons in the journey to seek the truth and uncover the fate of tens of thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared over the past years.
This platform is not merely a technical tool but a bridge for communication and unifying efforts between the National Commission, as the independent governmental body entrusted with this national file, and civil society organizations that have worked on this issue for years. This cooperation confirms the importance of effective partnership between official institutions and civil society. The expertise and databases possessed by civil society organizations, including the association, form a fundamental resource for the work of the National Commission.
From its side, the Commission provides the official and legal framework necessary to expand the scope of research and access to information, which ensures the integration of efforts and directs them optimally.
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📝'The Soldiers Spat and Peed on Me.'
#Israel tortures #Palestinians. Systematically and with impunity. The evidence has been overwhelming for decades. As its #genocide on #Gaza unfolds, Israel's #torture of detainees has reached new levels of horror, as this on-going series of direct quotes from Palestinian survivors will show.
🚫PCHR, together with @IRCT , Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), and the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre (TRC), calls for an end to torture and genocide in #Palestine.
✊We stand #UnitedAgainstTorture and demand #StopTorture and #EndTheGenocide.
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For over 30 years, Hamdi Shaqqura, our partner from @pchrgaza has worked for human rights in Gaza.
Under constant Israeli bombardment, he and his colleagues continue documenting war crimes — because: »No one should later be able to say, I didn’t know.«
dignity.dk/en/news/the-tortu…
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IMLU strongly urges @NPSOfficial_KE to use non-violent methods to manage and de-escalate situations and avoid the use of unnecessary force on #Justice4OurMashujaa protesters. For emergency response, call us toll-free on 0800 721 401. #SiriNiNumbers #FreeToProtest
