Protest against forced feeding of Palestinian prisoners, Jerusalem, June 16, 2014. Activists and doctors take part in a demonstration, organized by Physicians for Human Rights organization, against the bill to legalize forced feeding of hunger-striking prisoners in Israel, in front of the Knesset. Sign in Hebrew reads: "Judge, what is legal in administrative detention?" and in English and Arabic: "Force Feeding = Torture." (Photo: Activestills)

MK Khenin: Force-feeding is torture

The Attorney General’s Office defended on Monday a controversial bill to allow hunger-striking prisoners to be force-fed, telling the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee it had suitable checks and balances and was not a “torture law.” The Knesset had been scheduled to vote on the bill in a final reading on Monday, as it had been…