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E. Recommendations
53.
The Committee makes the following recommendations:
(a)
The provisions of the Convention should be incorporated by legislation into the
domestic law of Israel; in particular, a crime of torture as defined in article 1 of the Convention
should be enacted;
(b)
The practice of administrative detention in the Occupied Territories should be
reviewed in order to ensure its conformity with article 16;
(c)
The State party should review its laws and policies so as to ensure that all
detainees, without exception, are brought promptly before a judge and are ensured prompt access
to a lawyer;
(d)
The State party should ensure that interrogation methods prohibited by the
Convention are not utilized by either the police or the ISA in any circumstances;
(e)
In view of the numerous allegations of torture and other ill-treatment by law
enforcement personnel, the State party should take all necessary effective steps to prevent the
crime of torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and
institute effective complaint, investigative and prosecution mechanisms relating thereto;
(f)
All victims of torture and ill-treatment should be granted effective access to
appropriate rehabilitation and compensation measures;
(g)
The State party should desist from the policies of closure and house demolition
where they offend article 16 of the Convention;
(h)
The State party should intensify human rights education and training activities, in
particular concerning the Convention, for the ISA, the Israel Defence Forces, police and medical
doctors;
(i)
Necessity as a possible justification for the crime of torture should be removed
from the domestic law;
(j)
Such legislative measures as are necessary should be taken to ensure the
exclusion of not merely a confession extorted by torture, but also any evidence derived from
such confession;
(k)
Israel should consider withdrawing its reservation to article 20 and declaring in
favour of articles 21 and 22.
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