Torches placed on the side of a piston will activate the piston, but according to the wiki, torches should not power the blocks they are on.
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Still affects build 3

Confirmed for 0.15.0 official release. (Tested on Windows 10 Edition.)
EDIT: Also confirmed for 0.15.0 on Android.

Please respond and add the current version if you can reproduce this issue.

Confirmed for 0.15.4. (Tested on Windows 10.)
The behavior is different now, however. Previously the torches would simply power the piston. Now they blink rapidly, powering the piston, and then burn out, unpowering the piston. (As if they were in a torch-burnout-clock-circuit.)

Confirmed for 0.15.6 (Tested on Windows 10.) See above comment. The bug report's description should be updated to reflect the change in behavior since either 0.15.3 or 0.15.4.

Shouldn't this bug be closed since the new behavior is in MCPE-16283? Or should that bug be closed and this one be updated with the new behavior?

Yes. This one has been fixed in a sense. Closing as Fixed.