The World - News from June 17, 1987
In unprecedented newspaper advertisements, Israelis were invited to testify against the scandal-plagued Shin Bet security service. The announcements were placed by a judicial commission of inquiry probing the service’s interrogation methods after disclosures of physical violence, psychological harassment and perjury. The government ordered the secret inquiry after the Supreme Court agreed that an army lieutenant who served seven years of an 18-year sentence for alleged espionage and treason had been forced into a false confession.
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