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Prisoners Archive - January 2006
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Palestinians compensated over torture claims YNetNews 1/31/2006 Israel transfers NIS 2. 4 million to 28 Palestinians after decade-long campaign demanding compensation from Ministry of Defense due to claims of torture by interrogators. Justice Ministry: It was decided that the final compensation figure paid to the prosecutors would save the expenses of going to trial -- Israel has transferred NIS 2. 4 million (about USD 520,000) to 28 Palestinians after a decade-long campaign demanding compensation from the Ministry of Defense due to claims of torture by interrogators. "In one case, a Palestinian lost his testicles due to beatings he received during interrogations," said lawyer Bishara Jabali, who handled the legal campaign with his colleague Dan Assan. Hamas hints at long-term truce in return for ''67 borders Palestine Monitor/Ha''aretz 1/30/2006 A long-term truce (hudna) with Israel is possible if Israel retreats to its pre-1967 borders and releases Palestinian prisoners, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told CNN on Monday. "We can expect to establish our independent state on the area before ''67 and we can give a long-term hudna," Zahar told CNN''s Wolf Blitzer. Zahar laid out a series of conditions that he said could lead to years of co-existence alongside Israel. He said that if Israel "is ready to give us the national demand to withdraw from the occupied area [in] ''67; to release our detainees; to stop their aggression; to make geographic link between Gaza Strip and West Bank, at that time, with assurance from other sides, we are going to accept to establish our independent state at that time, and give us one or two, 10, 15 years time in order to see what is the real intention of Israel after that. " Undercover army units invade Kofer Kalil village, one resident arrested International Middle East Media Center 1/30/2006 Israeli undercover army troops invaded Kofer Kalil village near the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday at dawn, one resident was arrested. Haiel Amir, 22, was arrested after a gun fight erupted between an armed resistance group and Israeli Special Forces attempting to invade the village in a white car, eyewitnesses reported. The detainee is accused of being affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh. Following the initial confrontation, approximately ten military vehicles arrived on the scene accompanied by two military bulldozers. Israeli soldiers surrounded and shot at the Amir''s house. Israeli Court Sentences Detainees to Different Terms of Imprisonment WAFA 1/30/2006 TULKAREM, January 30, 2006, (WAFA) -Salem Israeli military court sentenced on Monday two detainees to different terms imprisonment and postponed the detention of eight others in the West Bank (WB)city of Tulkarem. The court sentenced Usama Abed Rabbu of Tulkarem refugee camp to ten years and Nabil Khateeb to 38 months. The court also postponed the detention of Issam Aref from Iktaba , Majdi Otaily, Bilal Khalil, Raid Taha, Rami Abu Assal of Anabta , Moumen Al-haj, Imad Samara and Subhi Shinar of Allar town until the second month. Al-Zahar: America is not Enemy International Press Center 1/30/2006 GAZA, Palestine, January 30, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) - - Hamas leader and elected PLC member Mahmoud Al Zahar told CNN and CBS on Monday that George W. Bush has the key to achieve peace in the region and we accept a long-term truce (hudna) with Israel is possible if Israel withdraws to pre-1967 borders and releases prisoners. "We can expect to establish our independent state on the 1967-occupied territories and we can give a long-term (calm) hudna," Zahar told CNN''s Wolf Blitzer. Detainees in the Negev celebrate the victory of an imprisoned candidate International Middle East Media Center 1/26/2006 Dozens of detainees flooded to a tent in the Negev detention facility to celebrate the victory of one of the detainees who achieved the highest votes in Nablus district. Detainee Ahmad Al Haj Ali, 65, achieved more than 40. 000 votes, and thus topped the first place among the candidates of Nablus area. Sheikh Wael Hashash, head of the election campaign of Al Haj, who is also imprisoned and living in the same tent, said that all detainees, in every branch of the Negev detention camp, remained awake all night long and were continuously updated, by their supporters in Nablus, using a mobile phone. Summary of Palestinian Candidates in the Israeli Prisons Palestine Media Center/Central Elections Commission 1/24/2006 Summaries of the prisoners nominated for the electoral districts, in table format Fares Abu Hussein: "Detainees are subjected to humiliation and abuse" International Middle East Media Center 1/25/2006 Palestine News Network interviewed Fares Abu Hasan, head of the Solidarity International For Human Rights, who revealed that Palestinian detainees in Israeli Prisons are subjected to continuous violations. He stressed on the necessity of highlighting the administrative detention issue, and on the importance of a full cooperation between the organizations that deals with the detainees and their cases. - How would you describe the current period the detainees are living? Throughout the years, Palestinian detainees managed to transform prisons and cells into a sort of schools and universities that graduate residents who are determined to achieve the rights of their people. Detainees started hunger strike at the Negev detention camp International Middle East Media Center 1/24/2006 The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported on Tuesday that the Prisoners Media Center announced that 2200 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Negev Detention camp began a hunger strike on Tuesday. The detainees decided to go on hunger strike in protest to the mistreatment and collective punishment they face in detention. The Media Center reported that the detainees in ten sections at the facility are barred from their visitation rights. The administration decided to bar hem from their visitation rights after they held a celebration for Fateh movement marking the 41st anniversary of its founding. [end] Archaeologists advise moving prison after Christian relics found on site Ha''aretz 1/24/2006 The Antiquities Authority on Tuesday recommended the Meggido Prison be transferred to a new location, after the remains of an ancient church were discovered on the facility''s grounds four months ago. The Antiquities Authority made the recommendation on Tuesday at a meeting with President Moshe Katzav and Christian leaders at the excavation site. An excavation team last year discovered a mosaic floor on the prison grounds adorned with three inscriptions indicating religious activity from the early Christian period. Some 60 prisoners from Meggido and Tzalmon Prison particpated in the excavation, which was carried out as part of the prison''s decision to build new incarceration units on the grounds. European governments ''knew of'' CIA flights The Guardian 1/24/2006 A European investigator looking into allegations of secret, CIA-run prisons in Europe said today that "a great deal" of evidence pointed towards the existence of a US system of "outsourcing" torture. Swiss senator Dick Marty said it was also highly likely European governments knew what the US had been doing, and that more than 100 prisoners may have been involved in recent years. He admitted, however, that he had uncovered no formal evidence so far of the existence of clandestine detention centres in Romania or Poland, as alleged by Human Rights Watch in New York. A Human Rights Worker Writes of her Christmas in Israeli Detention International Solidarity Movement 1/23/2006 In a prison cell, the few times a day when the door opens are an event. On the evening of Christmas Day, when the rattle of keys was followed by a soft Scottish voice asking cheerfully, “is there a bed free in here? ” I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad. It was Theresa, and she, like me, was attempting to attend December’s International Nonviolence Conference in Palestine. I was very glad to have a colleague join me, but her arrival in my cell meant that she too had been refused entry into Israel - which controls all the routes into Palestine. Already three of us were spending our week in the detention cells at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, and beginning to think if we never saw another piece of white bread again, it would be too soon. Taibeh residents who planned train attack given 7, 15 years in prison Ha''aretz 1/19/2006 The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday sentenced two Taibeh residents to prison for planning to smuggle explosive devices into Israel with the intention of bombing an Israel Railways train. Mujahad Dukan and Ameen Zivati were convicted of conspiring to aid an enemy during wartime and establishing contact with foreign agents. Dukan was sentenced to 15 years in jail and Zivati received seven years. A member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs'' Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Authority''s ruling Fatah movement, approached Dukan in the summer of 2005 and asked him to smuggle into Israel three explosive devices to be used in an attack against Israel Railways. Analysis: PA''s Dahlan and Hamas locked in personal vendetta Ha''aretz 1/20/2006 "A friend told me Hamas says they''ve wiped you out in the northern Gaza Strip. Prove him wrong. Don''t shame the shahids and the prisoners. "This is how Mohammed Dahlan, Fatah''s most senior official in the Gaza Strip, appealed to some 20,000 Fatah supporters in the Jabalya refugee camp on Wednesday. This was Fatah''s largest campaign gathering in northern Gaza. Dahlan, Fatah''s candidate in the Khan Yunis area, had arrived to support the local candidates, who are in danger of losing to Hamas. Hundreds of armed men, bands rhythmically chanting "Abu Fadi" (Dahlan) and deafening songs from loudspeakers helped make the gathering a success. But Dahlan''s performance looked like a last-ditch effort to save a sinking ship. US charges 10th Guantanamo prisoner AlJazeera 1/21/2006 The United States has brought criminal charges against a 10th Guantanamo Bay prisoner, charging an Afghan man with conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians, the Pentagon said on Friday. The case against Abdul Zahir means that 2 per cent of the roughly 500 foreign terrorism suspects held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been charged with a crime. On Friday, prosecutors accused Zahir of working as a translator and money man for the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan and the al-Qaida network, and implicated him in a 2002 grenade attack that injured three journalists. He was captured in July 2002. Rebel with a cause in Saudi Arabia Daily Star 1/20/2006 JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: He is a "Hoggie," a former Brooklyn prison inmate, a Francophile and a Saudi who is pushing the limits of his country''s ultra-conservative yet evolving society. Outside the branch of a U.S. coffee chain on Tahliya Street, Jeddah''s version of the famed Champs Elysees, Abdel-Monem Addas, 49, jokes with members of the local chapter of the Harley Owners Group (HOG) known endearingly as Hoggies. Dressed in faded jeans, boots, leather vests and bandanas, they stand in front of their shiny Harley-Davidson motorcycles, long associated with rebels and outlaws like Hell''s Angels. "I am a rebel in a nice way, testing society not the government, on how far I can go," says Addas in fluent English. Plea bargain for Danish ''Hizbullah spy'' YNetNews 1/18/2006 Iyad al-Ashwah convicted of conspiring to deliver information to enemy; court asked to sentence him to 33-month prison term -- The Tel Aviv District Court on Wednesday morning convicted Iyad al-Ashwah, a Danish citizen born in Lebanon, of conspiring to deliver information to the enemy and to its benefit. Al-Ashwah, 44, confessed to the offense and was convicted as part of a plea bargain. Other offenses of conspiring to commit a crime and attempting to aid the enemy during wartime were erased from the original indictment. Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 Human Rights Watch 1/18/2006 U.S. Policy of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide -- (Washington, D. C, January 18, 2006) – New evidence demonstrated in 2005 that torture and mistreatment have been a deliberate part of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism strategy, undermining the global defense of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2006. The evidence showed that abusive interrogation cannot be reduced to the misdeeds of a few low-ranking soldiers, but was a conscious policy choice by senior U.S. government officials. The policy has hampered Washington’s ability to cajole or pressure other states into respecting international law, said the 532-page volume’s introductory essay. EU to probe CIA secret jails AlJazeera 1/18/2006 European Union (EU) lawmakers have agreed to create a committee to investigate hotly-disputed claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated secret prisons in Europe. The committee, comprising 46 Euro MPs, will also probe whether European governments were aware of these alleged activities, and if citizens of the EU or of candidate states were involved, including as victims, in Europe or elsewhere. It will submit "all necessary recommendations" to the EU Parliament and will work "as closely as possible" with other institutions working on the same subject, such as the Council of Europe, a pan-European rights body. PHR-Israel Demands Disqualification of Judge Who Questioned Prisoner''s Right to Health WAFA 1/15/2006 TEL AVIV, January 15, 2006 (WAFA)- Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)-Israel called on the court to disqualify Judge Noga Ohad from the case of prisoner Ahmed al-Tamimi, after she questioned his right to health. In a press release issued Monday, PHR-Israel said that Al-Tamimi, who is being held in the Israel Prison Service MedicalCenter (IPS-MC), suffers from kidney failure. He receives dialysis three times a week and requires a kidney transplant. Al-Tamimi has a relative who is willing to donate a kidney, but the IPS has said it will charge $100,000 to carry out the transplant. Al-Tamimi, resident of Ramallah 44, married with 3 children, was arrested by Israel on November 11, 1993. He was given a life sentence in July 1994. Court refuses Pollard prisoner of Zion status YNetNews 1/16/2006 The High Court of Justice ruled Monday that jailed spy Jonathan Pollard is ineligible for prisoner of Zion status. Pollard, jailed in the U.S. since 1985 for spying for Israel, filed a petition to the court demanding that he’d be recognized as a prisoner of Zion and be repatriated to Israel. Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship in 1996 as the State of Israel recognized his status as a spy and pledged to fund his legal expenses.... The government argued that Pollard cannot be granted the status because Zionist organizations and activities are not banned under U.S. law. Detainee suffers high blood-pressure, lack of medications International Middle East Media Center 1/12/2006 Family of detainee Sami Ismail Al Fawaghrah, 42, from Bethlehem, voiced an appeal to local and international human rights organizations to save the life of their detained son, who is suffering high blood-pressure and diabetes, and is not receiving any medical treatment. Al Fawaghrah lost consciousness several times in detention after suffering high blood-pressure, while prison administration in Ofer detention facility is still rejecting to hospitalize him in order to conducted the needed tests and receive medication, and instead, he is only receiving painkiller pills and "advised to drink water". 23 Palestinians illegally detained in Russian Compound Palestine Monitor 1/9/2006 On Thursday, 5th January 2006, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel filed a petitioned to the Jerusalem District Court demanding the court orders the transfer of 23 Palestinians held in the Investigation Unit of the Russian Compound Detention Facility in Jerusalem, to be transferred to a civilian detention centre or prison. According to the Israeli Criminal Code, detainees held until the completion of legal proceedings are supposed to be transferred to a prison run by the Israel Prison Service (IPS), with all their citizenship rights are legally recognized. This severely violates their legal rights and falls far below the standards of ordinary civilian detention; they are denied the right to family visits, have no recourse to outdoor recreation and cannot use the canteen. MEPs to study CIA jails claim The Guardian 1/13/2006 Euro MPs are to investigate claims that the CIA detained suspected terrorists at secret prisons in eastern Europe. A committee of inquiry made up of 46 MEPs was set up yesterday to examine allegations that detainees have been held in Romania, Poland, or other countries. The CIA''s policy of taking suspects to countries where they might be at risk of ill-treatment, a practice known as extraordinary rendition, is already the subject of separate inquiries in Italy, Spain, Germany and by the Council of Europe. Guantanamo detainee boycotts trial AlJazeera 1/12/2006 A Yemeni accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Ladin has said he will boycott his war crimes trial because he does not recognise the authority of the US military tribunal. Yemeni Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who has acknowledged that he is "from al-Qaida", is one of only nine Guantanamo prisoners charged with crimes. A separate tribunal also began on Wednesday for Omar Khadr, a 19-year-old Canadian who is accused of killing a US army medic in Afghanistan when he was 15. Meanwhile, Aljazeera reports quoting Major Jeff Wayne, the prison camp''s deputy director of public relations, that 40 Guantanamo detainees continue to be on hunger strike. Guantánamo detainees: 4 years without justice Amnesty International 1/10/2006 Four years ago, the USA transferred the first “war on terror” detainees – hooded and shackled - to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. As the detention regime at Guantánamo Bay enters its fifth year, around 500 people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge or trial. Denied their rights under international law, there are mounting allegations of torture and ill-treatment of detainees at the camp. Detainees effectively remain in a legal black hole, many with no access to any court, legal counsel, or family visits. Many are subjected to confinement in small cells for up to 24 hours a day with minimal opportunity for exercise. Detainees are often kept in isolation, sometimes for months, as punishment for the infraction of strict camp rules. Family appeals medical aid for its detained son International Middle East Media Center 1/8/2006 Family of detainee Dhirar Ahmad Ibrahim, 28, from Kafer Ra''ey, near Tulkarem, appealed humanitarian organizations, locally and internationally, to pressure the Israeli Authorities in order to provide their ailing detained son with the needed medical treatment. Ibrahim is gradually losing his sight after suffering a sickness in his eyes while the Israeli Prison Authorities are rejecting to transfer him to hospital for medical treatment. Ibrahim, who was sentenced to four years imprisonment, underwent a medical surgery in his eyes before he was arrested. Judge asks to bar public from U.S. court if Shin Bet agents testify Ha''aretz 1/6/2006 Prosecutors asked a federal judge to bar the public, including the news media, from the court if Israeli security agents agree to testify at a hearing in the case of a man accused of being a fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Prosecutors also on Thursday asked U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve to allow any members of the Shin Bet security agency who testify to do so under aliases and wearing disguises to protect them from possible reprisals by the terrorist group. The hearing is scheduled for March 6 in the case of Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah, who served nearly five years in an Israeli prison after he was arrested there in 1993 and later pleaded guilty to helping to funnel $650,000 to Hamas. Prison tent becomes campaign room for PLC candidate International Middle East Media Center 1/4/2006 One tent in the Ansar 3 detention camp, in the Negev, has been transformed into an operations room of sorts in which close associates to Sheikh Ahmad Haj Ali "Abu Ali" 66, are running his electoral campaign for the Nablus constituency in the upcoming PLC elections. In the meantime, Abu Ali is making speeches over a mobile phone smuggled into the prison. Detainee Wael Hashash from the Balata Refugee Camp east of Nablus, who sleeps in Abu Ali''s tent, says the availability of communications tools between the prisoners has facilitated contact with the outside, saying Abu Ali''s participation in television interviews have surpassed other candidates not in prison. HR Intl Organisation Warns of Israeli Torture of Palestinian Prisoners WAFA 1/4/2006 VIENNA January 4, 2006, (WAFA)- Friends of Humanity International, in Vienna, warned against "severe health transgressions" endured by the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. In an extensive documentation issued Wednesday, the Organization, defending human rights including prisoners'' rights, observed systematic large-scale transgressions committed against thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in the Israeli custody. "The Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody are experiencing exceptional health conditions rarely experienced by any prisoners or detainees elsewhere," the HR organization confirmed in its extensive report published in this respect under the title: "Disguised Humanity". 6 Children Arrested During Month in Tubas WAFA 1/4/2006 TUBAS, January 4,2006 (WAFA)-Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed on Wednesday that Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) detained six children during a month in the West Bank (WB) city of Tubas. In a statement , PPS said that six children were arrested during only one month during Israeli search campaigns in Tubas, north WB, pointing out that the ages of the children not exceed 17. PPS called on international bodies and childhood institutions to exert efforts to stop Israeli practices that targeting Palestinian children. [end] Chief Rabbi''s son gets prison sentence YNetNews 1/3/2006 Meir Amar, son of Sephardic Chief Rabbi, ordered to pay NIS 35,000 in compensation, sentenced to almost three years in prison after being convicted of kidnapping, imprisoning his sister’s boyfriend, extortion, threats, abuse -- The Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday sentenced Meir Amar, the son of Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, to a prison term of two years and eight months. As part of a plea bargain, Amar was convicted of kidnapping a youth involved in a romantic relationship with his sister Ayala, as well as abuse of a minor, illegal confinement, extortion, threats, and causing bodily harm. Likud Election panel: No moral turpitude in Feiglin''s offenses Ha''aretz 1/3/2006 Moshe Feiglin, head of the far-right Jewish Leadership faction in Likud, withdrew his candidacy from the party''s Knesset list Tuesday, after the chairman of the party''s elections committee, retired justice Zvi Cohen, determined that his previous offenses did not constitute moral turpitude. In a letter he sent to Likud assistant direction-general Rafi Duek, Feiglin noted that Cohen''s decision was very important to him because he plans to vie for party chairmanship again in the future.... Feiglin served six months in prison in 1997 after he was convicted of incitement while active in his Zo Artzeinu movement, which opposed the Oslo Accords. MPA: IOF Arrests 3495 Citizens in 2005 WAFA 1/2/2006 GAZA, January 2, 2006, (WAFA) - Ministry of Prisoners'' Affairs (MPA) said that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, in 2005, around 3495 citizens- among of them 1600 are still behind Israeli bars. In its annual report, MPA stated that the IOF preceded during the said year its arrest campaigns where 3366 citizens were arrested in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, 96. 3% of the total number (3495) and 129 from Gaza Strip, 3. 7%. "There are hundreds of citizens, mostly pupils, were detained for long hours on the Israeli military checkpoints and detention centers, besides 3495 citizens were not documented due to the ministry incapability... " Treasury signs agreement to open Israel''s first private jail Ha''aretz 1/2/2006 The Finance Ministry on Monday signed an agreement to establish the first private jail in Israel. The prison will be built south of Be''er Sheva and will hold up to 800 prisoners classified as a minimal-to-moderate security risk, with an option to raise their number to 1,000. The prison will provide a speedy solution to the lack of jailing facilities in the country and is expected to create work opportunities for the area''s residents.... The franchisee comprises the Israeli companies Africa-Israel and Manrav Engineering and the American company Emerald, which operates several small private prisons in the United States. |
Collective punishment Editorial, Ha''aretz 1/15/2006 It is difficult to know whether the government''s decision to imprison 800,000 Palestinians in the northern West Bank by thinning out traffic almost entirely at the main crossings from Jenin, Nablus and Tul Karm southward was taken after all the implications had been taken into consideration, or, as is often the case, whether the decision was made by the military and Shin Bet security services on the ground. It is doubtlessly easier for the security forces to pursue those planning acts of terror when the West Bank is divided, when roads are closed and reduced traffic at the crossings allows for maximum control of the Palestinian population. There is also no doubt that a few dozen Islamic Jihad activists are traveling around the northern West Bank and planning acts of terror. The question is whether someone has taken overall responsibility for the clearly disproportional steps taken since December 2 against a huge number of people, preventing them from living lives that are already difficult. Since the beginning of December, the West Bank has been for all intents and purposes divided into three parts, each of which has become a large prison for the Palestinians. The women of Machsom Watch, a human rights organization, who maintain a continual presence at the roadblocks at the entrance to Nablus, have reported that in recent weeks Palestinians seeking entry to Nablus have been turned back en masse at the Hawara and Beit Iba roadblocks. Among them, for example, were students from Tul Karm coming to Nablus to take tests.
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