PHR-Israel

Isolation=abuse. Haaretz reaffirms our position. Yet, PHRI is convinced no doctor should participate in isolation suitability examination.

Our new report on Israeli #prisons growing use of solitary confinement was published today. http://bit.ly/1UePEuz 

In Regent Park, Toronto city invests in migrants & residents, here interior minister wishes to expel migrants or put them in closed facility

IDF brass say Gaza's economic woes are leading to another war, but politicians are biding their time,

The discussion of #forced_feeding law in the HCJ had adjourned. We will update when a decision is given.

Att. Lin @IMA_HARI : a physician that'll forced treat will be taken out of Israel Med. Assoc. there is no other option. #forced_feeding Law

Att. Lin @IMA_HARI to judges: you do not appreciate the intricate thought that resulted in no deaths of hunger striking prisoners since 1996

Att. Lin @IMA_HARI ethics is ethics is ethics. a physician can't use forced treatment. #forced_feeding law.

Att. Safadi, rep. the State: there's a difference btw autonomy & sanctity of prisoner's life & that of the lives of others. #forced_feeding

Att. Bligh @KnessetIL symmetry of prisoner & State: if prisoner makes public & political considerations why can't the State? #forced_feeding

If indeed saving life of #hunger strikers is State's aim, how come there's a difference btw criminal & security prisoners? #forced_feeding

Att. Gur Bligh @KnessetIL I have not heard from the petitioners why this #forced_feeding law is unconstitutional by definition.

Judge Mazuz: #hunger_strike is not an illness, and one must cope with it. #forced_feeding. discussion in High Court of Justice

judge Mazuz: you need to show the law is unconstitutional, not that it is redundant. #forced_feeding

Att. of Al-Mezan: #forced_feeding is another tool for the State. not really to save life, this is lip service

judge Mazuz: in hunger striking prisoners the State has wider consideration than in Patient Act Law (regular patients).

Att. Lin continues: its unlikely you'll receive medical report that after 85 days of #hunger strike forced feeding will save someone.

IMA (Israel Med. Assoc.) attorney: the forced feeding law touches the doctor-patient relationship.

IMA attorney, Orna Lin, claims there needs to be a principle discussion of forced feeding law. not just of the security clause