Photo: © Tero Vesalainen | Dreamstime.com At the end of a major hearing at the Supreme Court this past July, the court's security guards feared violence from right-wing activists who had come to court. To avoid this, they helped representatives from ACRI quickly escape from the courtroom the moment the proceedings ended and tried to hide us in one of the corners of the building. And so there we found ourselves, after a principled and important legal hearing about the starva

© Edward Lange | Dreamstime.com On November 10, 2025, a bill was brought for its first reading in the Knesset plenum: the Penal Law Amendment Bill (Death Penalty for Terrorists). The bill seeks to impose the death penalty on defendants convicted of murder motivated by nationalism.    This punishment would be designated for Palestinians only, and seeks to limit the ability of the court to use its discretion by mandating the death penalty in these cases. The bill also proposes

© Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com On October 20, 2025, ACRI contacted the legal advisors to the government, the Israel Prison Service (IPS), and the Ministry of National Security, following media reports about plans to reclassify anyone incarcerated for remaining in the country illegally from criminal prisoners to security prisoners. The appeal warns against the harmful implications of the new policy and requests that this change not move forward.   In the appeal, Attorney Ni

Illustration (created using AI) On April 29, 2025, we approached various military authorities following testimonies that detention...

Illustrative. Photo created using AI On December 31, 2024, ACRI approached the Prison Service Commissioner and the Government's Legal...

On January 6, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a Freedom of Information petition demanding the disclosure of...

Savconstantine, Dreamstime.com On December 16, 2024, the Association for Civil Rights appealed to the Chief Military Prosecutor,...

Severe overcrowding in Israeli prisons prompted the Knesset to establish a mechanism allowing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to grant...

Since the outbreak of the war, all Palestinians arrested in the West Bank for offenses under security legislation have been detained in...

On 29.10.2023, we appealed (Hebrew) to the Attorney General and the Police Commissioner, demanding that the police stop photographing...

A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank    Over a Year of War     Since the horrific massacre carried out by...

On May 23, 2024, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel...

On February 22, 2024, ACRI, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked and Gisha petitioned the High Court of Justice (Hebrew) demanding that...

ACRI joined the petition, led by Physicians for Human Rights, regarding the scabies epidemic raging in prisons. The petition, which was...

Following a series of testimonies by prisoners and their lawyers, including statements by representatives of the IPS and the Minister of...

Association for Civil Rights in Israel Position on The Youth Law (Adjudication, Penalizing and Manners of Treatment) (Amendment - Arrest...

Following the murderous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a protracted war in Gaza, at the cost of extensive harm to...

Since October 7, questions and claims have been raised in the public discourse about the role of the Red Cross in relation to Israeli...

On 12.3.2014, along with the College of Law and Business and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, ACRI filed a petition to the High...

Even before the terrorist attack Hamas perpetrated on October 7, and before the war broke out, Israeli democracy was facing severe...