Some 63 percent of complaints filed by soldiers to the army ombudsman were found to be at least partially justifiable, ombudsman Haim Laskov stated in his annual report published here several days ago. This is double the rates of justified complaints as compared with last year. Laskov said in a press conference that despite army orders, there were still cases in which soldiers were punished without trial, were humiliated, were required to perform additional exercises as punishment and that commanders practiced group punishment.
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