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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - January 2004
Actors
at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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Militia chief accuses Israelis of sodomy Independent Online 1/27/2004 Tel Aviv - A former Lebanese militia chief told a court on Tuesday he had been forcibly sodomised by Israeli secret service torturers who then left him shackled and soaking in excrement for almost two weeks. Mustafa Dirani said he was too ashamed to repeat the words of his tormentors and instead spelt them out to the court hearing his claim for six million shekels (about $1,34-million or R7-million) in compensation over his 1994 interrogation. Prison Service begins releasing list of prisoners in swap Ha'aretz 1/26/2004 The Israel Prison Service on Monday night began publishing the list of prisoners to be released in the prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah. The list will be updated throughout the night Monday, as the names arrive from the Ministry of Justice.....Lebanese prisoner Mustafa Dirani, who is expected to be freed as part of the deal, will testify on Tuesday at the Tel Aviv District Court in the lawsuit he filed against the State of Israel in March 2002, claiming NIS 6 million in damages for alleged torture and rape by Israeli interrogators. Palestinian prisoners in Salem jail on hunger strike Palestinian Information Center 1/10/2004 Bethlehem - Palestinian detainees in the Zionist military detention center “Salem” have gone on hunger strike to protest their inhuman detention conditions and savage torture. Lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner’s club, Muhanad Al-Kharaz, said after visiting a number of captives in Salem that the prisoners were complaining of constant assaults and humiliations. Israel violates the rights of Palestinian women prisoners Arabic News 1/8/2004 Palestinian women prisoners in the Israeli al-Ramla prison are being exposed to tough repressive acts, and live under very difficult humanitarian conditions, as they called on the Palestinian government and the Palestinian prisoner's rights group to help them bring their plight to the international community. In two separate messages addressed to the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, and the Palestinian prisoner group in al-Khalil, the women prisoners said that they were exposed to torture, repression, isolation and other maltreatment. |
“Our Sacrifice…Our Struggle” – Interviews with Kata'ab al Qassam leader, Part 2 By Anne Gwynne, International Press Center 1/8/2004 This piece takes the form of an interview with B, the revered leader of the Kata’ab al Qassam military wing of Hamas of whom I’ve recently written. It is the second of four article-interviews concerning B, his family, and the Resistance. I would like all readers of these pieces to see my pictures of the family, but I feel afraid that the Israelis will make some new horror from innocent pictures. This is why I have removed all names and any other reference that could cause collective punishment to be inflicted upon them. It is one of the many family stories of Nablus that cries out to be told. B’s father, 72 years old, is a learned Sheikh, a world renowned Islamic scholar who has addressed conferences in many countries, and a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood. Much of his life has been spent under arrest, under house arrest and in prison, including 96 days of torture last year. He has five sons: One has a 700 year sentence for military activities; the Second has only “one times life” – a phrase you hear all the time. The Third is blind and sentenced to ten and a half years; the Fourth is “number one wanted Mujahad”. The Fifth, O, is “for the family” - a common phrase amongst the great fighter families of Balaata and Nablus referring to the one child who will have nothing to do Resistance so that he may be spared imprisonment and torture. The “one for the family” is getting rarer every month as the Zionist terrorism escalates to an unprecedented level. O is a man of supreme courtesy and gentleness who never failed to ask me with sincerity to join him and B whenever they had a rare hour together. (I always declined, preferring to leave them with their precious time.)
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Adalah Adalah (Justice in Arabic) is the first non-profit, non-sectarian Palestinian-run legal center in Israel. The main goal of Adalah’s work is to achieve equal rights and minority rights protections for Palestinian citizens of Israel. Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Organization: Addameer (conscience) is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues. Supports Palestinian prisoners, advocates for rights of political prisoners, works to end torture. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International USA Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Arab Association for Human Rights - HRA The HRA was founded in 1988 to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles. It is an independent non-governmental organisation registered in Israel. Association for Civil Rights in Israel - ACRI In Hebrew - The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) was founded in 1972 as a non-political and independent body, with the goal of protecting human and civil rights in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control. B’tselem The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel. Boycott Israeli Medical Association UK: The Medical Committee for Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) will document the systematic torture of Palestinian people by agents of Israel. It will publicise the practice in order to bring world opinion to bear on Israel. And it will challenge the Israeli Medical Association which has repeatedly failed to issue advice to doctors who are involved in any way with torture. Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. Palestinian Center for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an independent legal body based in Gaza City dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law, and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Palestinian Prisoners Society The Palestinian Prisoner Society is a social and human institution and its members are prisoners inside prisons and released prisoners. Membership is open to every Palestinian prisoner inside and outside prisons who meets the conditions of membership. Physicians for Human Rights - Israel Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-Israel) was established in 1988 as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting and protecting the medical human rights of all residents of Israel and the Occupied Territories. Public Committee Against Torture in Israel - PCATI An independent human rights organization founded that monitors the implementation conditions in detention centers and continues the struggle against the use of torture in interrogation in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine The main collection contains the texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace. World Organisation Against Torture OMCT is today the largest international coalition of NGOs fighting against torture,summary executions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in order to preserve Human Rights. It has at its disposal a network, SOS Torture, consisting of some 240 non-governmental organisations which act as sources of information. |
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