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Legal Representation During Interrogations of Minors or Suspects with Intellectual Disabilities
Photo: @ Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com A new bill in the Knesset seeks to regulate the right to legal representation during...
Jul 92 min read
Illegal and Violent Conduct of Haifa Municipality Inspectors Against Protesters
Antiwar protest (illustrative). Photo: Orna Naor, Shatil-stok On June 29, 2025, ACRI approached the Haifa Municipality and police...
Jun 302 min read
Unlawful Strip Searches of Female Protesters
Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok (the individuals pictured are not connected to the events described in this post) On June 25, 2025, we...
Jun 262 min read
Police Harassment of Arabic-Speaking Journalists
Illustrative. Photo: @ Dmytro Dudchenko | Dreamstime.com On June 23, 2025, ACRI and the I’lam Media Center-The Arab Center for Media...
Jun 252 min read
Journalists Cannot be Blocked from Broadcasting from the Scene of a Missile Strike
Mounted police at a protest. Photo: Amos Gil, Shatil-Stok On June 23, 2025, ACRI contacted the Attorney General following reports about a...
Jun 252 min read
Police Crackdown on Peaceful Anti-War Protests
Police officers remove a protester at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2025. Photo: Arik Segal, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp...
Jun 192 min read
Thanks to ACRI, the Police Changed the Procedure for the Use of Stun Grenades
On October 31, 2024, the police updated the "Deployment and Use of Stun Grenades" policy. The new version (Heb) allows officers to...
Jun 52 min read
Police Cannot Ban Protesters from Holding Pictures of Gazan Children Killed in the War
Photos of people and children killed in Gaza during a demonstration. Photo: "Standing Together" On May 29, 2025 ACRI sent an urgent...
May 302 min read
Unacceptable Humiliation of a Detained Protester by Prison Guards
© Wideweb | Dreamstime.com On May 27, 2025 ACRI contacted the Prison Service Commissioner and the Police Unit for Investigation of Prison...
May 282 min read
Permit for an Antiwar Protest in Haifa: A Saga
Demonstration in Tel Aviv against the war, May 24, 2025. Photo: Zohar Bar Yehuda, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp The coalition...
May 272 min read
Know Your Rights: Police Misconduct, and How to File a Complaint
Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok Police misconduct is divided into two types: criminal offenses and disciplinary offenses. Complaints...
May 272 min read
Involvement of the Shin Bet in Criminal Investigations
© Lepasik | Dreamstime.com On May 23, 2023, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the Supreme Court to establish a...
May 53 min read
Police Must Protect Protestors from Violence
Police evacuating participants in the joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial event in Ra'anana. Credit: Tomer Appelbaum At the end of April...
May 42 min read
Investigating Expression Offenses without Legal Approval
© Lucian Milasan | Dreamstime.com On April 27, 2025, ACRI submitted a petition to the Supreme Court demanding a ruling stating that the...
Apr 262 min read
Stop Police Use of Chokeholds
March 2023. Source: "Documentation of the High-Tech Protest", WhatsApp A chokehold is a method for restraining suspects and...
Apr 14 min read
Stop Police Violence Against Protesters
Border Police vehicle at a demonstration. Photo: "Protest Documentation", WhatsApp In response to the government’s most recent efforts to...
Mar 252 min read
The Shin Bet: Questions and Answers
Photos: Amos Ben Gershom, National Photo Collection; Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) is a covert...
Mar 186 min read
Police Deploy 'Hawk Eye' System for Tracking Drivers
First Petition On January 28, 2021, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Privacy Israel filed a petition with the High...
Mar 44 min read
Repeal the Protection of the Public from Criminal Organizations Law
© Andrei Dodonov | Dreamstime.com The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice on February 12, 2025,...
Feb 122 min read
Police: Detainees May not be Blindfolded, Except in Extreme Cases
© Pressmaster | Dreamstime.com Following a Freedom of Information request submitted by ACRI to the police, the police sent the directive...
Jan 161 min read
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