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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - May 2004
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US allies accused of prison abuses Al-Jazeera 5/28/2004 Some Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said they were abused by occupation troops from Poland and other countries, according to copies of statements to Army investigators obtained by AP. The report cited witness statements, which also include new and more detailed allegations of abuse by military intelligence soldiers, including a civilian interpreter''s accusation that an Army interrogator forced a prisoner to walk naked through a cellblock. Israeli Guards Rape Palestinian Women – Freed Detainee Islam Online 5/20/2004 NABLUS , May 20 (IslamOnline.net) – A Palestinian female freed from Israeli detention said more than 15 fellow Palestinian women were raped by Israeli interrogators to force them to confess to charges leveled against them and collaborate with the Israeli intelligence. "Israeli investigators and intelligence officers keep video tapes of the raping to blackmail the female detainees," she told IslamOnline.net, requesting anonymity...."They have used this raping techniques before my detention and continue to use it until today," said the Palestinian woman who spent nine years of her life in Israeli detention. Iraqis Furious Over Repeated U.S. Attacks On Mosques Islam Online 5/17/2004 BAGHDAD, May 17 (IslamOnline.net) – Away from the policies of pre-dawn terrifying sweeps, systematic and abhorrent prisoner abuse and "imprecise" bombings of civilian Iraqi homes, the U.S. occupation troops have recently embarked on a policy of storming and attacking mosques, making Iraqis even more bewildered and angry. Imprisoned Israeli Arabs Jerusalem Times 5/13/2004 Lost between identity and citizenship -- The Israeli Government deals with Palestinian prisoners with Israeli IDs and citizenship in the same way it deals with Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and differently from the way in which it deals with Jewish prisoners. This variation in treatment reveals that Israel considers Palestinians living in Israel full Israeli citizens with rights, unless they are in prison, in which case they are viewed as Palestinians. Palestinians Urge Swapping Israeli Remains For Prisoners Islam Online 5/12/2004 GAZA CITY , May 12 (IslamOnline.net) – Families and relatives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have appealed to resistance factions to swap the remains of the six Israeli soldiers killed Tuesday, May 11, in a roadside ambush for their loved ones. "We want the resistance fighters to exchange the body parts of those Israeli soldiers with our prisoners and pray that the fighters would capture more spoils from the enemy," the mother of prisoner Mazen Al-Nahal told IslamOnline.net. Syria Criticizes Sanctions, Seeks Talks The Guardian 5/12/2004 DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria denounced U.S. economic sanctions on Wednesday and other Arab countries - including close U.S. allies - joined in the criticism. Europe ignored the penalties by dispatching a trade delegation to Damascus. Some Arabs questioned the validity of the measures and the motives behind them, saying they serve Israeli - not American - interests and could further antagonize Arab feelings toward the United States, already soured by the war in Iraq, the prisoner-abuse scandal and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. General Who Made Anti-Islam Remark Tied to POW Case IBN News 5/12/2004 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army general under investigation for anti-Islamic remarks has been linked by U.S. officials to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, which experts warned could touch off new outrage overseas. A Senate hearing into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was told on Tuesday that Lt. Gen. William Boykin, an evangelical Christian under review for saying his God was superior to that of the Muslims, briefed a top Pentagon (news - web sites) civilian official last summer on recommendations on ways military interrogators could gain more intelligence from Iraqi prisoners. Nazareth court rejects request to free Kafr Kana 3 Ha''aretz 5/11/2004 The Nazareth District Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the three Kafr Kana residents who were originally suspected of murdering Israel Defense Forces soldier Oleg Shaichat in July 2003, to be freed from house arrest. The three filed the request after police revealed Monday that they have arrested a new suspect in the murder, who has confessed to killing and has reenacted the murder. Protesting against the deterioration of their human Conditions, Qadomeem Palestinian Detainees start an Open Hunger Strike International Press Center 5/11/2004 GAZA, May 11, 2004 (IPC + WAFA)-- 25 Palestinian detainees in Qadomeem Concentration Camp started an open hunger strike- since 8 May 2004- and it is still lasting till now. This was reported by Mohannad Ek Kharraz – lawyer of the Palestinian Detainee Club- after visiting the camp and meeting a number of those detainees. The detainees declared their strike as a means to protest against the deterioration of their human and living conditions and due to being kept in the camp for long time and not being moved to any other prisons. Israeli link possible in US torture techniques By Ali Abunimah, Daily Star 5/11/2004 In exchange for interrogation training, did Washington award security contracts? -- CHICAGO, Illinois: The head of the American defense contracting firm implicated in the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has close ties to Israel and visited an Israeli "anti-terror" training camp in the occupied West Bank earlier this year. Jack London, chairman, president and CEO of CACI International Incorporated, traveled to Israel in January this year as part of a high-level delegation of US Congressmen, defense contractors and pro-Israel lobbyists, sponsored and paid for in part by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, a pro-Israel lobbying and fundraising group, and Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a prominent Washington law and lobby firm. Rights groups: Israel imprisons, abuses Palestinian youths Ha''aretz 5/10/2004 More than 300 Palestinian teens are routinely subjected to physical and psychological abuse in Israeli prisons now, two human rights groups charged Monday. The Israel Defense Forces denied the allegations. The Geneva-based Defense for Children International and Save the Children, headquartered in Sweden, said that as of May 2004, 373 Palestinians under 18 were being held in Israeli detention centers and prisons. At least three of the detainees are under 14, they said. The groups charged that the treatment of Palestinian child prisoners by Israeli authorities amounts to a pattern of violence that has gone unchecked for years. |
On Resistance By Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, Palestine Chronicle 5/27/2004 The symptoms of anxiety, trauma, frustration, and the desire to revenge prevailed as a result of Israeli assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, and intensified by assassinating Dr. Abdel Aziz El-Rantessi. In a research study conducted by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, it was revealed that less than 3% of the population do not display symptoms of stress, depression, or trauma; and more than 30% of the population show enough symptoms to need therapeutic intervention. The people''s spirits were refreshed a little when the resistance of Iraqis intensified against the American occupation in Faluja. That was followed by the brutal scenes of Iraqi prisoners which certified the American regime as an enemy of human rights and democracy in this era. The illusion that America is an example of justice and respect for human dignity was finally dead. The truth came out crystal clear despite the apologies, investigations. Then some Muslims slaughtered an American publicly on TV… As if they are saying to the Americans that we are equal in brutality and moral slump. I heard an American general saying, "This is for you to know the enemy that we are dealing with", in a clear finger pointing to Islam and Muslims.
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