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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - May 2005
Actors
at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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Female university student arrested in Hebron International Middle East Media Center 5/30/2005 A Palestinian security source reported on Monday that Israeli soldiers arrested Sunday a female university student on a military checkpoint which was installed at the entrance of al-Fawwar refugee camp in Hebron. The Palestinian District Coordination Office reported that Nariman Ahmad al-Salameen, 28, from al-Sammoa village, was arrested and transferred to Asqalan prison. Al-Salameen is a student of the Hebron branch of Al-Quds Open University. [end] IOF Arrests 2 Citizens WAFA 5/30/2005 HEBRON, May 30, 2005, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested two citizens, including a girl, in two separate violations in the West Bank, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said. The sources said Monday that Israeli soldiers arrested, last night, Nirman Salamin 28, near al-Fawwar Camp, south of Hebron. They added that the soldiers arrested Salamin and led her to Asqalan Prison in Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli troops swept into the neighbourhood of Swaitat, in Jenin, and arrested Abdulraziq Turkman 24, and led him to undisclosed place, witnesses said. Abbas insists era of suicide bombers is over Daily Star 5/30/2005 The era of suicide bombing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be over and the culture of violence is changing in the region, said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an interview aired on Sunday. Abbas made his comments hours after Israel''s government agreed to release 400 Palestinian prisoners and days after landmark talks with President George W. Bush, who sought to strengthen the Palestinian leader, in part, by not demanding publicly that he crack down on militants. In an interview broadcast on ABC-TV in the U.S. last night, Abbas renewed calls for Hamas to renounce violence and enter into dialogue with Fatah. Israel to free Palestinian prisoners with ''blood on their hands'' Ha''aretz 5/31/2005 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has instructed Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to prepare for the release of veteran Palestinian prisoners who have "blood on their hands." The prisoners have been jailed since before the 1993 Oslo accords and are elderly and in poor health. Sharon informed the cabinet of this Sunday before it approved the release of 400 security prisoners, mainly those jailed for minor offenses. He will inform Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of the decision - which is in accordance with commitments made at February''s Sharm el-Sheikh summit - when they meet next week. Amnesty Reports Israeli War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity Palestine Media Center 5/26/2005 Israeli Forces Continue Extra-judicial Executions, Home Demolitions -- Amnesty International on Wednesday said that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have committed “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes,” including unlawful killings, torture, destruction of property, obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel, and continued to carry out extra-judicial executions of Palestinian anti-occupation activists. The human rights group also said in its 2005 annual report that the deliberate targeting of civilians by Palestinian armed groups constituted “crimes against humanity.” J''lem mufti demands U.S. apology for Guantanamo Koran desecration Ha''aretz 5/27/2005 The top Muslim cleric in Israel on Friday demanded the U.S. apologize for alleged mishandling of the Koran by American military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The mufti of Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, also called on Muslims around the world to boycott American products during his weekly sermon at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. U.S. investigators admitted Thursday that Korans were mishandled at the prison in five instances. But they said they found no "credible evidence" that a holy book was flushed in a toilet, as Newsweek magazine recently reported in an article that has since been retracted. IOF Arrests one of PNA''s Intelligence Member WAFA 5/26/2005 HEBRON, May, 26, 2005, (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) arrested today a memeber of the PNA Military Intelligent Services in the West Bank city of Hebron, WAFA correspondent said. He added that Ezzat al-Shoubaki 25, was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint, west Hebron and led into an unknown place. Al-Shoubaki was imprisoned in Israeli prison to 26 months and released in last February. In the meantime IOF backed by military vehicles stormed Tammon town, west Toubas city abd broke into citizens houses. They launched a search campaign into the houses, spreading a state of fear and panic among children and women Israel prepared to discuss release of fighters who assassinated Ze’evi International Middle East Media Center 5/26/2005 Israel informed the Palestinian Authority that it is prepared to discuss the possibility of releasing the fighters who assassinated the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze’evi, in October 17, 2001, Fatah legislator Abdul-Fattah Hamayel said. Hamayel told Palestinian Legislative Council members on Tuesday that this issue is “on the table”, while Israeli security officials denied the statements of Hamayel saying that if they were released from the Palestinian prison in Jericho, the Israeli army will arrested them. The PLC held a special meeting in Ramallah to discuss the release of the fighters, who are also held with Gen. Fuad Shobaky, who financed the Karen A weapon shipment. ''No entry'' for Palestinian refugees USA Today 5/24/2005 WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday ruled out the return of any Palestinian refugees to Israel or the loss of three major blocs of Jewish settlements in the West Bank under any peace deal. Speaking in Washington, Sharon also promised to help Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas "as much as we can as long as we do not risk our security." Abbas, who was elected by Palestinians in January to succeed the late Yasser Arafat, is due to meet with President Bush on Thursday to seek more U.S. support. Under a February truce agreement with the Palestinians, Israel promised to free 900 of the more than 7,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. It has released 500. When he returns to Israel, Sharon said, he will authorize freeing the additional 400 prisoners. U.S.: Bush Should Urge Abbas to Respect Rights Human Rights Watch 5/25/2005 Dear President Bush, I am writing to you on the occasion of your meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge you to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law in areas under Palestinian Authority control and in any U.S. efforts toward a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Human Rights Watch welcomes the significant efforts of President Abbas...However, Human Rights Watch has serious concerns regarding ongoing human rights abuses in the OPT, including violence against women, use of torture in interrogations and the continued presence of prisoners on death row, especially given the lack of due process in their trials. We urge you to raise these matters with President Abbas and call for immediate action on the part of the Palestinian Authority. Half-blind 15-year-old boy faces long jail sentence Electronic Intifada 5/26/2005 Not once did Zaki receive medical attention for his eye, which remained a gaping hole, covered by bandages which were not changed in 20 days. -- Action Alert, International Solidarity Movement -- THE PROBLEM:Zaki Mohammed Mansour (15) of Saffa village, West Ramallah, in the West Bank of Occupied Palestine was released on "bail" of 20 000 shekels (about $4800) two days ago. This is very unusual in the West Bank. Most small boys who are arrested are not given bail but have to remain in prison for months on end awaiting judgement, only to receive a prison sentence at the end of it all. However, a brief glance at the last two months of Zaki''s life reveal a tragic story. Two months ago Zaki he was shot in the eye by Israeli Occupation Forces with a rubber coated metal bullet. Freed detainees protest in Khan Younis International Middle East Media Center 5/21/2005 Saturday afternoon, freed Palestinian detainees protested in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, demanding that the Palestinian Authority employ them. Hamdi al-Najjar, spokesperson of the National Coalition of Liberated Detainees in Khan Younis, reported that the protest is part of a series of protests the freed detainees plan to conduct if the P.A [does not] heed their demands and improve their conditions. “The freed detainees demand that the P.A provide them with jobs [to offset] their difficult economic situation, as they have the right to live in dignity and provide their families with decent living”, al-Najjar added. Israeli Jail Doctor Informs Prisoner That His Death is Imminent International Press Center 5/25/2005 GAZA, May 25, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - An Israeli military doctor informed one of the Palestinian patients at Negev Desert Jail that his death was imminent, due to the numerous untreated disease he is suffering from and the lack of medical care given to him and the rest of the prisoners. Human rights groups asserted that Said Eid, from Hebron, suffers from a number of chronic diseases, and that the Israeli military doctor in prison told him he might die if he wasn''t moved to a hospital soon. The sources added that despite the Israeli doctor''s recommendation, the jail administration refused to move Eid to one of the Israeli hospitals to treat him and probably save his life. Appeal to Release a 14-year Wounded Girl WAFA 5/24/2005 HEBRON, May 24, 2005, (WAFA)- The family of the youngest female prisoner, in Israeli prisons, called on the Palestinian National Authority and the international HR organizations for an immediate intervention to save the soul of their 14-year-old daughter. In a statement issued Monday, the Prisoners Media Centre (PMC), in Hebron, said that Hiba Ish''aq was wounded and arrested by Israeli soldiers in Hebron for being rejected to be physically searched. Hiba''s mother said that her daughter, who needs a special health care, lives in a difficult physical and psychological deterioration. Sharon says 400 Palestinian prisoners will be freed Yahoo! News 5/24/2005 WASHINGTON (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged to release 400 Palestinian prisoners to "help" Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas who will hold talks at the White House on Thursday. Sharon took a more conciliatory line with his Palestinian counterpart in a speech in Washington, and again committed himself to the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, but he insisted Israeli security must not be compromised. Sharon said the Palestinian prisoners would be released on his return to Israel from a private visit to the United States. His comments came two days ahead of a White House meeting between Bush and Abbas. But the Palestinian leadership called Sharon''s gesture "propaganda". MK wants urgent debate after Amnesty report comdemning IDF conduct Ha''aretz 5/25/2005 Yahad (Meretz) lawmaker Zahava Gal-On on Wednesday called for an urgent Knesset debate following the publication of the annual Amnesty International report on human rights violations, which accuses Israel Defense Forces soldiers of war crimes, including unlawful killings, torture, destruction of property, obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel. The report says the IDF is responsible for the deaths of some 700 Palestinians, including 150 children, "most of them unlawfully." Most of the deaths were caused by shooting, explosions, and aerial attacks on residential areas, according to the report. Report slams Israeli, US rights abuses AlJazeera 5/25/2005 An international human-rights group has accused Israel of committing abuses that constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes. The annual report by the human rights watchdog group Amnesty International (AI), released on Wednesday, criticises the Israeli use of Palestinians as human shields, extra-judicial killings, systematic house demolitions, torture, collective punishment and closures and deliberate killing of civilians. Some 700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupying forces last year alone, an increase from the previous year''s figure of 600, according to the report. About 150 of these were children, many killed deliberately and unlawfully, charged the watchdog group. Asaad unveils ''list of change'' in the South Daily Star 5/26/2005 SIDON: Riad Asaad announced Wednesday the creation of his electoral list in the South, which he called the "list of change" and which is supported by opposition groups, such as the Communist Party, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Leftist Movement. The list includes Riad Asaad for the Shiite seat in Zahrani, Fawzi Bou Farhat for the Catholic seat in Zahrani, Naji Beydoun and freed detainee Anwar Yassine for the Shiite seats in Bint Jbeil. As the list was being announced, a fight broke out between Asaad and Yassine, as Yassine objected on the alliances forged by Assad. The fight led to the injury of journalist Hassan Hankir. FBI memo reignites Qur''an furore The Guardian 5/26/2005 Further allegations that US interrogators at Guantánamo Bay flushed copies of the Qur''an down a toilet emerged yesterday, a week after the White House denounced reports of the incidents. Declassified FBI records showed that as early as April 2002 detainees at the US prison in Cuba had denounced the treatment of the Qur''an by guards. "Their behaviour is bad," one detainee is quoted as saying in July 2002. "About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Qur''an in the toilet." Prisoner''s Family: No info on our son since his arrest International Middle East Media Center 5/21/2005 The family of detainee Samer Nidal Issa, 20, appealed to humanitarian organizations to aid them in locating their son who was shot, mauled by military dogs, and arrested by the Israeli army on Friday. Aqel was shot and arrested on Friday after the army invaded Balata refugee camp in Nablus. Samer was seriously injured and attacked by military dogs after he was shot. Palestinenet news website reported that the father of Samer was killed by the army during the first Intifada which started in 1987, one of his brothers was killed last year, and another brother is currently in detention. Chained, tortured and left to die in cell The Guardian 5/21/2005 Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him. The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention centre in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2am to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days. ICRC told US of Quran abuse in 2002 AlJazeera 5/19/2005 The International Committee of the Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 that detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison complained of US officials mishandling the Quran, Red Cross and Pentagon officials have said. The ICRC revelation came as Washington sought to defuse anger in the Muslim world after a US news magazine reported the Muslim holy book was flushed down the toilet at the Guantanamo prison. The magazine later retracted the article. The ICRC told the Pentagon on Thursday that "multiple" times in 2002 and early 2003, prisoners at Guantanamo said US officials showed "disrespect" for the Muslim holy book, said Simon Schorno, an ICRC spokesman."The US government took corrective measures and those allegations have not resurfaced," Schorno said. U.S. continues pursuit of ''unchecked executive power'' Daily Star 5/20/2005 Human rights group lambastes American policy toward ''war on terror'' detainees - Expert briefing Amnesty International - Editor''s note: The following text is an abbreviated summary of the latest report from Amnesty International, titled "Guantanamo and beyond: The continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power." -- In late December 2001, a memorandum was sent from the United States Justice Department to the Defense Department. It advised the Pentagon that no U.S. District Court could "properly entertain" appeals from "enemy aliens" detained at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Because Cuba has "ultimate sovereignty" over Guantanamo, the memorandum asserted, U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence meant that a foreign national in custody in the naval base should not have access to the U.S. courts. The first "war on terror" detainees were transferred to the base two weeks later. Palestinian-Egyptian detainee stuck in detention International Middle East Media Center 5/18/2005 Prisoners Supporters Society in the Galilee reported that Detainee Yassin Mohammad Abdul-Khaliq Qasem has been in detention since three years after he was arrested in his parents’ home in Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip. Prisoners Supporters Society in the Galilee reported that Detainee Yassin Mohammad Abdul-Khaliq Qasem has been in detention since three years after he was arrested in his parents’ home in Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Authorities claimed that Yassin was illegally staying in the country. Lebanese opposition leaders meet BBC 5/18/2005 Two of Lebanon''s opposition leaders, ex-army commander Michel Aoun and Christian warlord Samir Geagea, have met for the first time in 15 years. The meeting took place in the capital, Beirut, where Mr Geagea has been in prison since 1994. Mr Aoun, who recently returned to Lebanon from exile in France, called for Mr Geagea to be released. Mr Aoun said they had buried their differences after fighting against each other in Lebanon''s civil war. The meeting came as anti-Syrian opposition groups prepare for parliamentary elections later this month, where they hope to make gains against candidates backing Syrian influence in Lebanon. HRW: US Islam abuse genuine AlJazeera 5/19/2005 The row over a retracted Newsweek story that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran is overshadowing genuine incidents of religious humiliation, according to Human Rights Watch. "Around the world, the United States has been humiliating Muslim detainees by offending their religious beliefs," said Reed Brody, special counsel for the New York-based watchdog on Wednesday. Newsweek on Monday retracted an article quoting an unidentified US official as saying that a probe into allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo found that interrogators had thrown a Quran into a toilet to rattle Muslim prisoners. Sending their regards YNetNews 5/18/2005 Palestinian residents remember new Shin Bet director as skinny operative at refugee camp -- TEL AVIV - Old buddies?: When longtime residents of the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank town of Nablus looked at their newspapers this week, the photos of new Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin seemed very familiar. It did not take long for them to realize Diskin served as a Shin Bet operative at the camp during the 1980s, only then they knew him as “Captain Yunes.”...“Yunes was very familiar with the Muslim tradition and Arab customs,” Nasrallah said, and recounted how on one occasion Diskin picked him up from his home and took him in for questioning. “He drove me to prison in his car and didn’t even handcuff me,” he said. Soldier who fired at unarmed Palestinian sentenced to prison Ha''aretz 5/18/2005 A military court on Wednesday sentenced an Israel Defense Forces soldier, convicted of shooting an unarmed Palestinian in the Gaza Strip and obstruction of justice, to twenty months in prison. This is the harshest punishment imposed on an IDF soldier in the four and a half years of fighting in the territories. The soldier, from the Bedouin reconnaissance unit, was convicted in the shooting of a Palestinian who was fixing an antenna on a rooftop opposite the Philadelphi Route. IDF sources believe that the man was killed, but because this has not been proven, and because no verification has been provided by the Palestinians, the prosecution agreed on a charge of inflicting serious injury rather than murder. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Accuses Israeli Government of Plotting to Bomb Al Aqsa Mosque International Press Center 5/17/2005 GAZA, May 17, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, accused the Israeli government of collaborating with extremist Jews in order to bomb Al Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Sabri condemned the Israeli move of releasing nine terrorist Jews from prison, after being charged with attempting to fire missiles at Al Aqsa Mosque. "Their release asserts some sort of collaboration, how could they let them go free if they were planning to attack Al Aqsa Mosque?" Sheikh Sabri said. Pollard says disappointed and disgusted by meet with Ayalon Ha''aretz 5/18/2005 WASHINGTON - Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon visited Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in his North Carolina prison Tuesday evening. In the course of the meeting, Pollard had tough words for the ambassador and expressed his dissatisfaction with the Israeli government. "I was severely disappointed and even disgusted," said Pollard. "After 20 years I had hoped for a serious meeting but instead all I received was an empty gesture and a meeting without substance." Ayalon''s visit was the first by an Israeli ambassador with Pollard, who was sentenced to life after being convicted of spying for Israel in March 1987. Galboa detainees complain of harassments International Middle East Media Center 5/16/2005 Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Mohammad Abu Rayya, visited several detainees in Galboa detention who informed him of repeated attacks against them. Abu Rayya said that a special forces of the Israeli called, members of a unit called Mitzada, repeated attacked them in their rooms and cells, conducted military searches and deprived the detainees of their basic rights. The detainees told Abu Rayya that soldiers are forcing them into solitary, and depriving them from their visitation rights, in addition to repeatedly breaking into their rooms and cells to search them. Prisoners'' Testimony Affirms Raddad''s Death Due to Severe Torture in Israeli Prisons WAFA 5/16/2005 JERUSALEM ,May, 16, 2005, (WAFA)-Prisoners, in Israeli jails, affirmed today that the prisoner Abdul Fattah Raddad died in al-Ramala hospital last week due to Israeli torture and medical negligence. Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that the prisoner Saher Khalaf''s testimony revealed that Raddad died because of Israeli jailers'' severe torture. "While I was at the hospital on May 4, in the afternoonfor making some medical checks, Israeli medics took Raddad from the room''s jail at 8 AM and backed him at 14 PM. His face was pail and his pulse was high, adding that Raddad demanded me to pour cold water on his chest to lessen pains.... ''Police didn''t fail'' YNetNews 5/17/2005 Internal Security Minister Gidon Ezra rejects criticism of police over Monday''s massive anti-disengagement protest, says force has limited power over non-violent protesters; arrestees slated for Disengagement Unit at Maasiyahu Prison -- Settlers and their supporters did on Monday just what they said they would do: they blocked traffic at some 40 intersections in a massive countrywide protest Wednesday, snarling traffic during the afternoon rush hour and bringing traffic to a halt around Israel...Ezra said "the police did its job. We didn''t want things to get violent, even though in some places officers were pelted with rocks." He added that the police have limited resources to deal with non-violent protest. |
Torture''s Dirty Secret: It Works By Naomi Klein, The Nation 5/19/2005 I recently caught a glimpse of the effects of torture in action at an event honoring Maher Arar. The Syrian-born Canadian is the world''s most famous victim of "rendition," the process by which US officials outsource torture to foreign countries. Arar was switching planes in New York when US interrogators detained him and "rendered" him to Syria, where he was held for ten months in a cell slightly larger than a grave and taken out periodically for beatings. Arar was being honored for his courage by the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, a mainstream advocacy organization. The audience gave him a heartfelt standing ovation, but there was fear mixed in with the celebration. Many of the prominent community leaders kept their distance from Arar, responding to him only tentatively. Some speakers were unable even to mention the honored guest by name, as if he had something they could catch. And perhaps they were right: The tenuous "evidence"--later discredited--that landed Arar in a rat-infested cell was guilt by association. And if that could happen to Arar, a successful software engineer and family man, who is safe? In a rare public speech, Arar addressed this fear directly. He told the audience that an independent commissioner has been trying to gather evidence of law-enforcement officials breaking the rules when investigating Muslim Canadians. The commissioner has heard dozens of stories of threats, harassment and inappropriate home visits. But, Arar said, "not a single person made a public complaint. Fear prevented them from doing so." Fear of being the next Maher Arar.
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