Vermonters
for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Prisoners Archive - March 2007
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - March 2007
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
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Report: 60 suicides in detention centers over past 7 years Ha’aretz 3/28/2007 According to a report issued by the Israel Bar Association’s committee overseeing detention centers, over the past seven years, more than 60 detainees committed suicide while in remand. The figure presented in the report does not include failed suicide attempts." The criminal justice system in Israel does not want offenders to die," the committee chairman, Attorney Benny Steinberg, wrote in the report. "Nonetheless, it leads to the death of suspects and detainees at a frequency that cannot be ignored, even if the death is ultimately self-inflicted." The report determines that there is no mental health system in detention centers, and detainees have accessibility difficulties in reaching their attorneys, which increases the risk of suicide. The report states that between 2000 and 2005, approximately 50 detainees committed suicide while in remand... Jailed PFLP leader demands Arab Summit to affirm the refugees’ right to return International Middle East Media Center 3/28/2007 Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demanded the Arab leaders holding their summit is Saudi Arabia to affirm the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homeland. Sa’adat said that Arab leaders should remain steadfast on the Palestinian national rights of independence and the right of return in any possible peace settlement. Sa’adat’s statement came as he was talking to Botheina Douqmaq, one of the lawyers of the Mandela Institute as she visited him and visited detainees Mousa Doudeen and Sultan Al Jalony in Hadarim Israeli detention facility. He said that the Arab Summit is demanded to break the siege imposed on the Palestinian people, and to start practical measures to transfer the Palestinian case to the United Nations... NGOs in Nablus demand a national plan to confront the strangulating effect of the numerous West Bank barriers Ma’an News Agency 3/28/2007 Nablus - Non-governmental organizations in the West Bank city of Nablus have called on the Palestinian Authority and all Palestinian nationalist and Islamic factions, in addition to all Palestinian organizations, to draw up a national plan in order to face the negative effects resulting from the existence of Israeli military barriers across the occupied territories. These barriers affect all facets of life in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in Nablus. A statement issued by the NGOs in Nablus said that the barriers which surround Nablus from all sides turn the city and the area of Nablus into a huge prison, from which Palestinians are banned from entering or leaving. Some citizens may only cross after they have been detained for hours at the various barriers. During this time, Palestinians face all kinds of humiliation and suffering... Israeli prison administration attempts to break nonviolent resistance Palestine News Network 3/27/2007 Human rights sources report that a Palestinian political prisoner from Jenin’s town of Burqin was transferred from Al Naqab Prison in order to put an end to his nonviolent resistance. Bilal Hamada had declared an open hunger strike in protest of the Israeli authorities continuing to hold him beyond his 40 month sentence. The hunger strike is one of the oldest and most effective forms of nonviolent resistance available to political prisoners world-wide, according to international human rights sources. Concerned for their son’s health, the Hamada family said on Tuesday, “The occupation authorities are fully responsible for the life of our son who continues his open hunger strike, now in its eighth day. ”The family’s appeal continued, “Bilal’s health is deteriorating and instead of releasing him, the occupation authorities have transferred him... German human rights lawyer to give public lecture in Ramallah Ma’an News Agency 3/26/2007 Bethlehem - The German human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck is giving a series of lectures in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories this week. Under the auspices of the Palestinian human rights organization ’Al Haq’, and the coalition ’United Against Torture’ (UAT), the advocate Wolfgang Kaleck is giving a public lecture entitled “Torture and Universal Jurisdiction” in the Protestant Hall in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, 29th March 2007, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Mr. Kaleck is a leading defender of universal jurisdiction and prosecutor of war criminals for international crimes. He is one of the lawyers involved in the prosecution of former US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, in Germany. Organised by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)... -- See also: Public Committee Against Torture in Israel - PCATI As Prisoners Day approaches, female detainees appeal to be freed International Middle East Media Center 3/26/2007 The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of the Detainees, stated that Palestinian female detainees are facing harsh living conditions in Israeli prisons, and are facing torture, repeated attacks and are deprived from their basic rights. The Society called on the Palestinian people, president and government in addition to all faction to organize a wide campaign for the support of the detainees who are facing Israeli violation to their rights and to the international law. The Society added that several female detainees are confined to solitary in underground cells, dark and filled with humidity, and are deprived from their visitations rights. As the Prisoners Day approaches, April 17, Palestinian female detainees, as well as all detainees, are still living under bad conditions, and facing continuous harassments... MP arrested for third time in ongoing campaign against Hamas party members in PLC International Middle East Media Center 3/13/2007 Less than a month after his release from prison, Israeli forces again arrested Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahmed Abdel Azziz Mubarak. This is the third time the 43 year old member of the Change and Reform bloc of the PLC has been arrested due to his political affiliation. Mubarak’s wife said that a large contingent of Israeli forces besieged the family home in southern Al Bireh, Ramallah’s neighboring city. The invasion began at 3:30 am Monday with Israeli soldiers breaking into all apartments in the Sharait neighborhood building before storming Mubarak’s apartment. She described the raid as “brutal. ” Tens of masked soldiers broke into the family’s home and rapidly began tearing through the rooms before dragging the Palestinian official into the night. Without allowing him to change out of his pajamas, troops took Mubarak in the back of a jeep to an unknown location. MP arrested for third time in ongoing campaign against Hamas party members in PLC Palestine News Network 3/12/2007 Less than a month after his release from prison, Israeli forces again arrested Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahmed Abdel Azziz Mubarak. This is the third time the 43 year old member of the Change and Reform bloc of the PLC has been arrested due to his political affiliation. Mubarak’s wife said that a large contingent of Israeli forces besieged the family home in southern Al Bireh, Ramallah’s neighboring city. The invasion began at 3:30 am Monday with Israeli soldiers breaking into all apartments in the Sharait neighborhood building before storming the Mubarak’s. She described the raid as “brutal. ” Tens of masked soldiers broke into the family’s home and rapidly began tearing through the rooms before dragging the Palestinian official into the night. Palestinian Child Political Prisoners 2006 Report Defence for Children International - Palestine 3/12/2007 In 2006, Israel continued its policy of arresting and imprisoning Palestinian children. Some 700 Palestinian children (under 18) were arrested by Israeli soldiers over the course of the year. Of these, around 25 children were held on administrative detention orders, imprisonment without charge or trial. The overwhelming majority of those arrested in 2006 were boys; there were eight girl child prisoners who served sentences at different points during the year. Of these, four had been arrested in 2006. -- See also: Full Report [Doc Format 137KB] and 700 Palestinian minors were arrested by Israeli army in 2006, Defence for Children International reports Mourning period begins for East Jerusalem man beaten to death on Salah Addin Street Palestine News Network 3/12/2007 Thirty-three year old Wa’el Karawi of A-Tur neighborhood was driving a Ford taxi on East Jerusalem’s Salah Addin Street. A woman in his car had West Bank identification and when the Israeli police pulled the van over at the Sawwanah barrier they tried to take her. Karawi protested on behalf of the woman in his charge and the police turned their attention toward him. Karawi was married for 13 years, but spent most of it between prisons and hospitals. He had already suffered from bullet wounds during the second Intifada, for which he received treatment in Iran, and spent six years in Israeli prison during the first Intifada. On the last day of his life Wa’el Tarawi went to work as usual, but with the expectation that it would be the easiest day of the week. Saturdays are generally the quietest. But witnesses report seeing Israeli soldiers and guards beating Wa’el... Palestinian women demonstrate in Bethlehem, demand improved conditions in Israeli prisons Palestine News Network 3/11/2007 Bihlam Samhan is a woman recently released from Israeli prison. She spoke to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of political prisoners during a nonviolent demonstration at the Bethlehem branch of the Red Cross. Highlighting the experience of all women held captive in Israel’s prisons since the 1967 occupation began, the struggle against which women have been at the forefront, she said, “Hundreds of women have been killed, injured and imprisoned. During it all they set one of the most beautiful examples of steadfastness and sacrifice. ”A delegation of demonstrators, who are among those who protest on a weekly basis, gave Red Cross representatives a letter of demands to improve the humanitarian conditions of the prisoners. The list included to provide medical care and adequate food, and end the policies of solitary confinement... Palestinian prisoner addresses the mother of Gilad Shalit: Ma’an News Agency 3/8/2007 Bethlehem - A 21-year-old Palestinian from Deheisheh refugee camp in southern Bethlehem, in the south of the occupied West Bank, currently detained in an Israeli jail, has sent a letter to Ma’an News Agency addressed to the mother of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Ala’ Abdul-Karim, 21, is serving a 14-year prison sentence on charges of being an intifada activist. Abdul-Karim’s letter shows an important humanitarian perspective despite the harshness of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He invites Mrs. Shalit to visit him in his prison and hear the stories of the Palestinian prisoners who hope to be released in a proposed prisoner exchange deal. He also urges mothers of both Israeli and Palestinian prisoners to work together to call for their release. Here is the text of the letter... Prisoner Society issues appeal on behalf of 60 year old man Palestine News Network 3/8/2007 Sixty year old Naim Abu Hamdieh from Hebron in the southern West Bank is serving 25 years in Israeli Nafha Prison. The Palestinian Prisoner Society is calling on international and domestic human rights organizations for prompt intervention in saving his life. In a statement issued Wednesday the PPS wrote that Abu Hamdieh has severe bleeding in the stomach. “He was admitted to the hospital in handcuffs and shackles, and suffers from clear medical negligence on the part of the prison administration. ”Abu Hamdieh is one of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons who is not receiving adequate medical attention, according to PPS reports. [end] Palestinian human rights worker denied passage from Gaza to West Bank despite permit, international invitation Ma’an News Agency 3/8/2007 Gaza - A field worker from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) was denied passage through Erez crossing from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, 7 March, despite holding a valid permit issued by the Israeli military, PCHR reports in a press release. Ibtissam Zaqout “al-‘Aaidi”, 44, PCHR’s director of field work, was held at Erez crossing for nearly 9 hours on Wednesday, and then ordered to return to Gaza. During this time, she was treated as a detainee and the Israeli soldiers withheld her identity card. She had been invited to the West Bank by the Swedish organisation, Kvinna Till Kvinna, and the Palestinian civil liaison had informed her that the Israeli military authorities had issued a permit for her. PCHR describes this action as within "the context of collective punishment practiced by IOF [Israeli Occupation Forces] against Palestinian civilians". Shin Bet interrogation tactic rejected Jerusalem Post 3/8/2007 The High Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) interrogators to inform a Palestinian detainee that his wife had not been arrested and placed under interrogation, as they had previously told him. The ruling could be the first step in abolishing the Shin Bet interrogation technique, said human rights lawyer Eliahu Abram. The court’s decision came in response to a petition by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI) on behalf of Mahmoud Sueti, 31, from Hebron, who was arrested February 1. According to the petition, written by PCATI attorney Labib Haviv, Sueti’s father and wife were informed by the IDF on February 19 that they could visit him in jail and bring clothes and utensils. When they arrived the following day at the Etzion Military Detention Center, the father was forced to don prison clothes... Israeli military court adjourn trial of two representative of the PLC Ma’an News Agency 3/7/2007 Ramallah - The Israeli military court in Ofer prison postponed its decision on the issue of the arrested delegates of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr. Ibrahim Abu Salem and the deputy Mahmoud Abu Jhesheh until March 27th. The deputies appeared before the military court on Tuesday and refused to recognize the legitimacy of the court and the trial. The minister of prisoners, Wasfi Qabha, condemned the adjournment of the trial, saying: "The abduction of representatives of the Palestinian legitimacy is contrary to all laws and international norms." He called on the international community to intervene urgently for the release of ministers and deputies arrested by Israeli forces. [end] Israeli forces desecrate Qur’an and force Palestinians to undress in detention center International Middle East Media Center 3/5/2007 Bethlehem resident Adnan Shnaith is imprisoned in Al Mascobia, or the Russian Compound, in West Jerusalem. He reported to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner Society that since his detention in October, he has been “subjected to vicious and brutal assault. ” Shnaith told the PPS lawyer that during Thursday’s raid on the cells, “25 soldiers began beating prisoners using batons on all parts of the body, which left many unconscious." He said that Ahmed Sheikh fainted after the Israelis severely beat him, while Bilal Sheikh is covered in bruises. Jihad Jabril was shot in the back earlier which exacerbates new injuries and Zahid Dadra also suffers pains from lingering wounds. The Prisoner Society reports that Israeli forces slammed Abu Tha’er Krifh’s head into a toilet, causing the man to lose consciousness. Palestinians arrested during recent Nablus operation "Winter Heat" held in Huwara Palestine News Network 3/5/2007 A General Counsel for the Defense of Human Rights lawyer gained access to the Huwara Detention Center, in the area of the checkpoint by the same name, in southern Nablus. Sixty Palestinians are inside, having been taken during the recent invasion of the city. Among them are Said Jawabreh, a teacher at the Academy of the Holy Qur’an, and Osama Mansour, a teacher at the Islamic School. The lawyer met with several prisoners and familiarized himself with the conditions, which he stated in his report, are abysmal. Palestinians suffering from injury and in need of serious medical attention are given just an Acamol, a pain reducer similar to Tylenol. He said that the food is not healthy and that a small portion is provided for several people to share. Cancer rates up in Israeli prison Palestine News Network 3/5/2007 Legislative Council member and chairperson of its Prisoners Committee, Issa Qaraqa’, said today that the phenomenon of malignant disease, particularly cancer, is escalating in Israeli prisons. The former Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that Bashar Salahat is the latest victim of cancer in the prisons while Salam Al Sha’er from Gaza is newly suffering from lung cancer, raising the number to 25. The Israeli administration fails to provide basic medical treatment, reports prisoner advocates, while oncology is unheard of. Qaraqa’ is asking that the World Health Organization pay particular attention to the issue of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, the treatment of whom violates the basic norms of international and humanitarian law. Places of detention lack adequate conditions for good health, while regular checkups and surgeries... are rare to never.. PPS: Israeli prisons use beatings and sleep deprivation to coerce confessions Palestine News Network 3/1/2007 Four young men from the Bethlehem District reported similar abuse to Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyers this week. Nabil Omar and Hamza Mahasiri from Bethlehem City, Nidal Afaneh from Beit Jala and Omar Khader Aljowi of Aida Refugee Camp spent four weeks in the Israeli detention center Al Mascobia, or the Russian Compound. Lawyer Mamoun Hashim interviewed the young men separately and all reported that they had been repeatedly beaten and threatened during the period of interrogation in order to extract confessions. These are common charges against the Israeli administration, reports the PPS based on hundreds of case studies. Although in most court systems confessions obtained under duress or through coercion would not be admissible, Israeli military court and the prison system do not adhere to international norms when dealing with Palestinians. Hamas lawmakers to remain in Israeli custody YNetNews 3/1/2007 Supreme Court rejects appeal of five senior Hamas lawmakers detained in Israel since their June arrest; Hamas lawmakers to remain in remand until end of legal proceedings, court decides -- Five senior Hamas lawmakers detained in Israel will remain in prison after the Supreme Court of Justice rejected their appeal on Thursday. The court ordered that they be held in remand until the end of legal proceedings. The Hamas members were nabbed in an late-night arrest raid in June in response to Gilad Shalit’s kidnapping and continued attacks against Israel. After their interrogation, the five were indicted in a military court on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and holding positions in a terrorist organization, among other offenses.... In September the Military Court at the Ofer camp ordered their release...  Articles
Jenin child tells the story of how soldiers killed his father in 2002 By saed at imemc dot org, International Middle East Media Center 3/28/2007 Translated by Saed Bannoura "My father was not a fighter. He was not armed. The [Israeli] soldiers took him from our house and tortured him without any mercy, they killed him and gave us his body, my brothers and I are orphans now. Where is the international conscience, where is the United Nations that puts the victim and the attacker on the same scale? My father was a peaceful man supporting his six children.” With these words, Mustafa Husny Fayid, 13, started talking about the tragedy that beset his family when the Israeli army carried out the Jenin refugee camp massacre in 2002, during an invasion that Israel calls “Operation Defensive Shield”. Five years after the massacre, the child was finally able to talk about what happened when he was seven. He expressed his anger that “the world is still unable to stop the Israeli atrocities”. “The world is talking about justice, peace and human rights but when it comes to us, and to what Israel is doing to us, they change their concepts and principles. We are refugees dreaming of a stable life, a country and a humble home”, Mustafa stated, “Where is the world justice, were is the international law, how come the committee set up to investigate the massacre in our camp was never allowed to be formed? They should come here and see how we are living, and the destruction inflicted on us and on our future. The occupation is the cause of all our problems, but nobody wants to see the truth, they want us to be silent." A Gaza Visit By Dr. Bernard Sabella, Palestine Chronicle 3/28/2007 While the advancement of peace is a cherished goal, the efforts and offers of the Riyadh Arab Summit cannot bear fruit if the Israeli counterpart refuses to budge. As a Palestinian parliamentarian I was in Gaza for the few days prior to the formation of the Palestinian National Unity Government and for the vote of confidence on Saturday March 17th. My impressions of Gaza, both in terms of it being a big prison encampment with Israeli guards all around its borders and of the effects of internal fighting between different Palestinian factions, reinforced my belief that the formation of a national unity government is a needed step in the right direction. Gaza’s economic situation as well as its social fabric, particularly relations between clans and extended families caught up in internal strife, is cause for serious concern. Of the Gaza population of 1.4 million living on 365 square kilometers 68.2% are below the age of 24 years. Children, 14 years and younger, make up 48.5% of the entire population. Gaza has the Mediterranean, as a limited outlet, but even the sea does not provide long term solace as it is monitored closely by the Israelis, which leads to the sporadic killing of Palestinian fishermen by Israeli gunboats when they are spotted off limits. Another cause for concern is the environmental disaster that the Mediterranean is suffering due, in part, to the untreated sewage and waste spilling onto its shores. There were projects planned to increase the treatment of sewage and waste but these had to be scrapped because of the election of Hamas and the subsequent boycott by donor states. Desalinization projects remain limited but one can spot medium sized trucks with motors for desalinization of home water. Gaza pipe water is not suitable for drinking because it contains an unacceptably high concentration of salt. Civil society organizations remain active and together with international partners continue to offer services to the population that cover physical and mental health, educational and vocational programs, youth activities and sports, human rights and advocacy among others. These, however, remain limited but offer much needed hope in a dismal situation. I had the opportunity to visit a Primary Family Health Clinic and a Mobile Dental Clinic both run by the Near East Council of Churches. The fact that there were well over fifty expecting mothers in the Family Clinic says much to the quality of service offered and the professionalism with which the Clinic is run. Professor Sami Al-Arian Enters 54th Day of Hunger Strike Palestine Chronicle/Democracy Now 3/21/2007 Sami Al-Arian is in dire condition. The jailed Palestinian professor has lost over 50 pounds as he enters the 54th day of a hunger strike to protest the circumstances of his continued imprisonment. DN speaks with his wife, Nahla Al-Arian. Sami Al-Arian has spent the past four years in jail despite a jury’s failure over a year ago to return a single guilty verdict on any of the 17 charges brought against him. He eventually signed a plea deal with the government in exchange for being released and deported. This past January, with just three months left before his scheduled release, a judge found him in contempt after he refused to testify before a Virginia grand jury. The date of his release could now be extended by a year and a half. On January 22nd, Al-Arian - who is a diabetic - stopped eating in protest. Last month he was transferred to the Federal Medical facility in Butner Virginia as his health deteriorated. A week before his transfer, we spoke with Sami Al-Arian from prison in his first broadcast interview since his 2003 arrest. He explained why he was on hunger strike. His wife, Nahla Al-Arian, is going to Virginia today to visit him along with their five children. She joins me now from Tampa, Florida where she lives. Portents of joy for the Palestinians By Danny Rubinstein, Ha’aretz 3/7/2007 The chances for setting up a Palestinian unity government are greater now than ever. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is scheduled to be in Gaza this weekend to finalize the details of government structure with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The sides are formulating the documents, submitting lists of ministerial candidates and, if all goes well, within a short time a Palestinian unity government will be established with the participation of Hamas, Fatah, the Popular Front and the People’s Party (the former Communists) and independents. Perhaps even within a week or two. Although the Palestinian spokesmen aren’t connecting the two issues, the presentation of the unity government is clearly supposed to be part of a more comprehensive move that will include a deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, parallel to the first stage of the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners. Without Shalit’s release in return for prisoners, the unity government will not be able to begin its work. On the Palestinian side, it is possible to discern the first portents of the near completion of the prisoner release deal. Announcements and slogans in newspapers call for "Liberty for the Prisoners" (from their perspective, they are prisoners of war, and not criminals). Hamas politburo member Osama Mazzini, who at the end of last weekend announced a breakthrough in the negotiations concerning Shalit and the prisoners, explained: "It is possible that this time the occupation leaders are evincing seriousness about bringing to an end the dealing with a case that has brought them domestic and international embarrassment ... and in the coming days several reports will be made public that will bring joy to the Palestinians, especially to the families of the prisoners." LinksAdalah 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 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 Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories 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. Occupation Prisoners News stories and reports about Palestinian prisoners from International Press Center, of the Palestinian National Authority’s State Information Service. Palestinian Centre 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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