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In the 7th of November 2017, the
Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (“TRC”) organized a
workshop under the EU project “Strengthening
Support of UNCAT and OPCAT & OPCAT in Palestinian Authority Legislation to
Stimulate a Human Rights-Oriented Palestinian Society” (NEAR-TS/2015/26).
The event was held in Hebron, at the office of
the Defense for Children International (DCI - Palestine) under the title “The
crime of Torture in the context of the Palestinian laws and the International
law ”. About 22 non-governmental representatives, advocates and human rights
activists participated in this workshop.
The Event included the following:
1. Lecture on
the frame work of torture in the Palestinian laws and in International law: this was presented
by Amjad Abu Lafi, the Advocacy Coordinator at TRC through PowerPoint slides
and was around an hour and a half, including questions and comments from the
participants.
2. Groups work: the participants
were divided into 2 groups, each group had a brain storming session on several
issues in regard of torture including the appropriate punishment for the crime
of torture, the shared responsibilities, the application of several legal
principles like non-refoulement, non-derogable rights and prosecute of
extradite, the group work was about an hour.
3. Representing
the conclusions of the groups work: groups had the chance to present the outcome of
their brainstorming.
later, the participants
had the chance to make any questions, then all participants had a joint lunch.
Moreover, the
event started at 11:00 in the morning and finished at around 1:15 in the
evening (before lunch) and a (AL-Wattan TV channel), a local TV channel covered
the event.
Lastly, we
would like to note that each participant was provided with a folder than
included a notebook, pen, the agenda (both in Arabic and English), brochure
that was designed by TRC in the past months that discusses several issues in
regard of torture, and another brochure that addresses most of the
controversial articles within the Palestinian laws in regard of torture.
