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GENERAL GEIII]RAL A/33/356 a S S E M B I.Y 13 \Ovenler 1978 ORIGII'ial ; E\GLISH :JTAt: =7 agt \i: iJiv tIrD N,4rfoN5 DistT " GENERAL GEIII]RAL A/33/356 A S S E M B I.Y 13 \ovenler 1978 ORIGII'IAL ; E\GLISH REPORT O]I TIIE SPECIAL COI,1I,{ITTEE TO IIIVESTIGATI', TSRAI]LI PFACTTCES ATT'NCTI}TG THX HT]XIA1\ FIG1ITS OT THTi POPULATTON OF TIIE OCCUPIXD TEFBITOqInS \ote by Lhe Secretarv-Cener-s 1 The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the liembers of the General Assenbly Lhe attacherl repor"L, wl-ich uas subnittcd to hin in z na nrrl enne vith Assenbly resolutions 32/9I B, paragraph 5, and 3Z/9I C, nar.drohhe O ahd IO of 13 December L9'i7, 1ry the Special Conaittee to fnvestigate fsraeli PTactices Affectirg the Puman lights of the Popur.atjon of the Occupicd Territories, 78-255)r5 Al33/355 COIiTENTS LETTEN OF TNAISMIT'IAL 3 I. TNTRODUCTION 5 IT. ONGAI.IIZATIOII OF I,IORK B 12 IIl . 23 ^27 ql r]' TV. n!] r\rrnFt\Tnll 2i) . A. Xvidence relating to policies alrd practices fof.loved by the Goverr&ent of Israel vith regard ta the occupied territaries 37-r7 B. lvidence reflecting the activities and measures undertaken to implement the policies a.nd practices of Lhe CoYernment of Israel vith regard to the occupied territories cA-nl C. nvid.ence relating to the d ay-to-daY situation of the civilians in the occupied terr itories B.r - q] IN V. SPECIAL NEPORT ON THE TREATI'{ENT OT CTVTLIANS q2- !ETENTION 1?5 A. Tnfomation on prison conditions ' ' 99- 1.09 E. Allegations of ill-treatment 110 - ,5 \rI. CONCLUSTOI\TS 131, VlI , ADOPTIO}I OF TIIE EEPORT 13']- OJ A1{IIXXES ozi in ryo I I. l4ap shar^ring Israeli settlements in the territories ^-^"-i JUnC TI. l.{ed-ica1 certificates relating to lvb ' Soleiria'n r{adi .t7/ J 5/ J)o LETTER OT TRA]'ISMfTTA], 10 Novenber 19TB Sir, 'fhp Sn'1aiql C^rlmjl-if.F io Tnweqtioete lsr.aeli Draetil.es A.+eel-inr' tl^e Hr:man Rights of the Popufation of the Occupied Territories has the honou-l' ta trarsmit to you the attached TeDort, ihs tenth, fo.rmulated in accordance vith the teros of General Assenbly resolurions 2rrl3 (I-XIIIl, 2546 ()CXIV), 2'7zT (yr]t), 2851 (xxvr), 3oo5 (xxvrr), 3092 B (rxvrrr), 32Lo A and c (srx), 3525 A and c (xxx) , 3tho6 C and D Ernd. 32/9L 3 and C. The report of the Special ConrnitEee follows the same pattern as that in previous years. It cortains a representative cross-section of the inforraation received by the Specia-L Camnittee since the adoption of its last r.AF^rl- ^h 17 n^+^hap lo77 -h.iq infnr.rctinn lJpq obtained in the absence of the co-operation of the Goverr:nent of Israel which continues to constitute a serious hardsbil in the voxk of the Special- Cornrnittee. It has been possible to follow the situation of the civilians in the occupied territories very closely by nonitoring the situation in these territories. The Special Conmittee relied on information gathered from a plurality of sources such as the oral and r"ritten testimony of persons having first-hand experience of the situation of cirrilians in the occupied territories, of pronouncements of responsible persons in the Israefi GovernmenL, infornation"eports subnitted to it by Goverrunents and non-govemrental bodies and rmedited film naterial of events in the occupied tertitories. The SFecial Conrnittee nad.e efforts to strengt:len contacts r,rith responsible persons in the occupied territories with a viev'to receiving information on the human rights situation in their areasl paid notices were inserted. in a nr:mber of loca1 newspapers inforr:iing the general public of the Special Connittee's ma.ndate a.nd indicating that it would consider infornation on the situation in the occupied territories, The information reeeived by the Special- Conmittee is anal-ysed in ea.ti^h T1/ S.hhlae ora oirron ar fhic 1'h|"^Thati^h r,rFi nr^ lc inl-.r- i. n eqlPrur cr E L+ r !-r 'p1 ca,te":clies, nDrely, that 'rhich concarrs the lrolic.r oi tht) Xo-Ie]'ffrent of TSIael of settlements and annexation and. that whieh concerns the situation of civilians h^a +ha naa,,na*i-- qamnlac 4?a r^^ inf^7r',i' ^f' ^ 6r!vrrt-.i,.-- ^*vr_ -"'-"'--lc'n received, of the pattern of the incidents occurring in the occupied terri"tories and their consequences in the forrn of arrests' trials and releases' Section V of this report contains the special report requested by the General Assenbfy on the treatnent of civilians in detention. It consists of information on prison conditions and a number of cases of alleged ifl-treatrent' of detainees. His Excel-lency Mr, Kurt tr^lal-dheim Secretary-General of the United Nations I,trew York A/33/356 Engfish Section VI contains the conclusions reached by the Specail Corurittee based on the analysis of the inforrnation contained in sections IV and V, In it' che Special ConrrniLtee finos tlrau the Government of -lsrael persists in its .af-.16pFnl r.ho no'i"w nf cnnavpii.-rr And ^T ^n--rried LerriLo-ies uo t,he detrinent of Lh,- humarr rirhts of lL- -iwilie- -^nllr',+i.r rr-a qnp'iqr C^Fri1--a' has '.toj ed r^cFrl ..n,-nrrivnca-l ei.p+.a'1art-- 1,.. LFA D?i rF l.linister and. other nen_bels of the Coverri:nent of Israe-L which _rrove that such a poljcy exists and that its aopL icztion is beinA accelerared. The Special Cofluniltee took note of reDorLs concerning t\e luture of t,he Epyptian territory oecupied by Israel in June 1967. ftrthermore, the Special Cottndttee considers it most regrettabl-e that the Government of Israel is perpetuating the occupation of the other territories and ,^ :-r-^-^:*-]-- ..'+^ ' J rr.b rLr ^r.^- -rts aimed ar their annexation. In these circunstances, the Special Comnittee feels that the international conmunity is put before its respons-Lbili Les no].e than jn prevjous years and consequently lhat jI should, in t,ne inl-.o1.ests of oe.l.e Arid h:rmAn riohr.q- aeh 1o o..r 1-ha -il iirr.r nnnr.natiOn Of all- 't hc +crritnri ec -.tr,,-i c,l r-\r rcr--F- gc p rae-r'l i r f t\e hostilitics of June I967, Accept, Sir, on behali oi the members of the Special Comrnitlee and on rv rpr^r'l f thtr acq.r?Fn^a9 of oLrr l-:ahect consideration. (signed ) Borut BOHTE (Yugoslavia ) Chairman of the Special Comnittee to Investigate Tsraeli Practices Affecting the Huuan \ights of the Dopulation of the Occupied Terriiories Ll33/356 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Special Corurittee to fnvestigate Jsraeli Practices Affecting Llre Humar Rights oJl che Population of the Occupied Territories ';as established by Lhe Lienera_L Assemb_Ly fn reso-LuLlon 2ll4j (xx_tl_LJ 01'fy uecemoer -Lyoo. ny r nar' resolution, the Ceneral Assembly decided to establish the Special CornmiLtee. composed of three Member Statcs, requested the Presid.ent of the Ceneral Assembly to appoint the members of the Special Conmittee. Tequested the Governr0ent of Israel to receive the Special Conmittee, to co-operate vith it and to facilitate its vork; requested the Special Coronittee to report to the Secret ary-General as soon as possible and whenever the need arose thereafter I al]d requested the Secretary-Ceneral Lo provide the Special Comrnittee '"rith all the aecessary facilities for the perforrdance of its task. 2. The following Menber States were appointed on t2 Septernber 1959 to serve on the Special Conrnittee: Somafia, Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia. The Goverrment of Sri Lanka appointed I!1r.. H. S. Amerasinghe, Permanent Representative to the United I{ations, as its represents.tlve on the Speclal Committee. The Goverlxaent of Yugo slavia appointed !h. Borut, Bohte, Professor of the Faculty of Lav of Ljubljana University and Meflber of the Federal Assernbly of Yugoslavia, as its xepresentative on the Special Corrmittee. The Goverrnaent of Somal-ia appointed I'Ir', A, A, Farah, and subsequently I'b. H. Nur-.Efmi, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as its representative on the Special Conmittee " On 26 April 197\, the President of the ceneral Assenbly at its t1,/enty-eighth session informed the Secretaf,y-cenera-l that Sonalia had decidecl to vjthdrav fTon the Special Committee and. that, in confornity with paragraph 2 of Assembly resolution 2)+l+3 (XXIII), he had appointed Senegal a member of the Special Counxittee " On 30 April 1971r, the Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations informed the Secretary- General that his Governnent had appointed I4r. Keba I'ltBaye, Chief Justice of Senegal- (Premier Pr6sident d.e l-a Cour supr6ne du S6n6€a1), as its representative on ttre Sp anent RePresenlative of Sri Lanha.to the United. Nations informed the Secret.:ry-General that I\ft', fl. S. Anerasinghe had resigned from the Special Connittee upon his election as PresicLent of the General Assembly at its thirty-first session. on 18 Febrrarw l9?7- the C.overnment of S]'i Lanka infcrmed the Secretary-General that l4r, V. L. B, Mendis, Sri Lar:.l<a High Comissioner to the Uni-.ed Kingdom of Great Britain and. Ilcrthern Treland., l,rcul-d serve on the Special Corrnittee at the neetings at Geneva f?am 22 February to I March 1977, 3. 0n 26 April J-977 Line Government of Sri l,anha inforned the Secreta"y-Ceneral that it had appointed "l'fu, L B, Fonseka, Deputy Permanent Representetive of $ri Lanka to the Uni-ted Nations, as its representative on the Special Conmittee.
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