Photo: Henry Wilkins/VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACRI petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on November 18, 2025, on behalf of an asylum seeker from Sudan, after the police revoked the permit for a demonstration at the United Arab Emirates embassy in Herzliya against the genocide in Sudan. The police initially approved the demonstration under certain conditions, but later reversed its decision, claiming it had received information that there was a high degree of cer

Photo: Wix Media In September 2020, the police scrapped the protocol that prohibited photographing protesters other than under exceptional circumstances. The police claimed there would be a new protocol, but despite repeated requests from the Association for Civil Rights, no new protocol has been put into place. Meanwhile, police officers have been photographing protesters whenever they like, without any justification. Officers have used their personal phones to photograph in

Fureidis. © Yoav Sinai | Dreamstime.com On the afternoon of October 24, 2025, the police placed a concrete barrier at the entrance to the village of Fureidis, home to approximately 15,000 people, completely blocking the eastern entrance to the village. According to a news report, the barrier was installed following complaints by the residents of nearby Zikhron Ya’akov to the Minister of National Security regarding gunfire, to which the Minister responded by instructing the P

Illustrative. © Arhivafoto15 | Dreamstime.com On October 19, 2025, a soccer match was scheduled to take place between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv (the Derby). The police decided to cancel the match a few minutes before it was due to start, after pyrotechnics were thrown from the stands of Hapoel Tel Aviv fans, some of which hit police officers and other fans. The fans were asked to disperse, but from the moment they left the stadium, the police acted with arbitrary

Wix media On September 18, 2025, ACRI sent a petition to the Attorney General following the recent expansion of the involvement of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in investigating suspected criminal incidents by framing them as terrorist events. For instance, several months ago the Shin Bet was involved in investigating an incident in which marine flares were set off in Caesarea; in recent weeks there have been reports that the Shin Bet is involved in investigating susp

Haifa Pride Parade, 2024. Photo: @Rndmst | Dreamstime.com On August 19, 2025, before the Pride parade was scheduled to take place in...

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok On August 18, 2025 ACRI petitioned the Supreme Court demanding that the police be prohibited from using...

Photo: @ Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com A new bill in the Knesset seeks to regulate the right to legal representation during...

Antiwar protest (illustrative). Photo: Orna Naor, Shatil-stok On June 29, 2025, ACRI approached the Haifa Municipality and police...

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok (the individuals pictured are not connected to the events described in this post) On June 25, 2025, we...

Illustrative. Photo: @ Dmytro Dudchenko | Dreamstime.com   On June 23, 2025, ACRI and the I’lam Media Center-The Arab Center for Media...

Mounted police at a protest. Photo: Amos Gil, Shatil-Stok On June 23, 2025, ACRI contacted the Attorney General following reports about a...

Police officers remove a protester at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2025. Photo: Arik Segal, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp...

On October 31, 2024, the police updated the "Deployment and Use of Stun Grenades" policy. The new version  (Heb)  allows officers to...

Photos of people and children killed in Gaza during a demonstration. Photo: "Standing Together" On May 29, 2025 ACRI sent an urgent...

© Wideweb | Dreamstime.com On May 27, 2025 ACRI contacted the Prison Service Commissioner and the Police Unit for Investigation of Prison...

Demonstration in Tel Aviv against the war, May 24, 2025. Photo: Zohar Bar Yehuda, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp The coalition...

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-Stok Police misconduct is divided into two types: criminal offenses and disciplinary offenses. Complaints...

© Lepasik | Dreamstime.com On May 23, 2023, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the Supreme Court to establish a...

Police evacuating participants in the joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial event in Ra'anana. Credit: Tomer Appelbaum At the end of April...