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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - June 2004
Actors
at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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Report slams conditions at prisons, detention facilities Maariv 6/28/2004 Public Defender''s Office says inadequate conditions are in violation of the law. -- A report by the Public Defender''s Office, submitted to Attorney General Meni Mazuz and to Internal Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, slams prison conditions across the country. According to the report, the inadequate prison conditions cause harm to prisoners'' health, undermine their dignity, and are in violation of the law. Nasrallah: ''Mistake'' led to deaths of 3 IDF soldiers Ha''aretz 6/25/2004 The three Israel Defense Forces soldiers whose bodies were returned to Israel in January''s prisoner exchange were killed by "mistake," Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday. Adi Avitan, Omar Suwad and Benny Avraham were kidnapped and killed by Hezbollah in October 2000, while patrolling along the Israeli-Lebanese border. But Nasrallah told Al Jazeera television Thursday that Hezbollah had intended to kidnap live Israeli soldiers. News Briefs: June 25 International Middle East Media Center 6/25/2004 Army demolishes three homes in Rafah / Military boats tightens siege on Gaza shores / Army kills three in Gaza / Prisoners Friends Association to protest next Tuesday / A Rafah resident dies of wounds sustained may 18 / Al-Qassam brigades fires shells a military camp in Rafah / Army invades a village near Jenin overnight / Soldiers demolish a home in Bethlehem / Army arrests five residents overnight Palestinian prisoners in Kadomim suffer worsening imprisonment conditions Palestinian Information Center 6/24/2004 Nablus - Palestinian prisoners in the infamous Zionist military jail of Kadomim to the southeast of Nablus city are complaining of worsening incarceration conditions. Lawyer Fayez Al-Zarba of the prisoners’ supporters society has quoted prisoners after visiting them that they were suffering from poor quantity and quality of meals. Is there Another ''Abu Ghreib" Prison in Israel? International Middle East Media Center 6/23/2004 Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners society, Raed Mhamid, who visited several detainees in Jalbo’ prison, said several rape attempts were conducted by Jailors against some detainees. Mhamid added that the detainees were placed in solitary after resisting and rejecting these attempts. Meanwhile, Mhamid added that the detainees whom he managed to meet informed him that the situation is boiling, and that the soldiers are forcing the detainees to strip in order to be searched, and that soldiers repeatedly ordered some prisoners to strip and placed them in a tight cell. Syrian Police Disperse Protestors Demanding Release of Political Prisoners Al-Nahar 6/22/2004 Police have dispersed scores of protesters who had gathered for a sit-in at a main square to call for the release of political prisoners, human rights groups said. Eleven pro-democracy and human rights groups had called for the sit-in Monday to mark what they called "Syrian Political Prisoner Day." But police quickly surrounded Arnous Square and dispersed the congregating crowd. The protesters left peacefully. Washington post Daily: Israel Tortures Palestinian Prisoners International Press Center 6/18/2004 GAZA, Palestine, June17,2004 (IPC+ Agencies)-- Some thousand Palestinian prisoners are being tortured in different formsby the Israeli ‘occupying authorities’ in the Israeli prisons and concentration camps, the Washington post US Daily reported. |
Bombing Syria: A strategy for self-defense By Jennifer Lowenstein, FromOccupiedPalestine.org 10/9/2003 ...But in Gaza City, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi spoke on Al-Jazeera after relieving his newest bodyguard of duty. Rantisi offered to give himself up to Israeli authorities at Erez if they promised to leave Hamas'' spiritual leader, Sheikh Yassin, alone. Rantisi now faces a life sentence in an Israeli prison close to Nes Tsiona. Family members might be allowed to visit him, we are told, but have been cautioned to purchase gas masks before entering any ward since prison guards, practicing state-of-the-art subduing techniques on their prisoners, routinely spray an agent similar to nerve-gas into the prison cells before beating up unrepentant convicts. [The Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that these guards, however, must not kill any unconscious victims as that constituted cruel and unusual punishment inconsistent with the Jewish State''s humanitarian track record. Pundits in the US have uniformly lauded this case as yet another example of Israel''s moral and legal superiority over its Arab neighbors and even some western European nations.]....
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Adalah Adalah (Justice in Arabic) is the first non-profit, non-sectarian Palestinian-run legal center in Israel. The main goal of Adalah’s work is to achieve equal rights and minority rights protections for Palestinian citizens of Israel. Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Organization: Addameer (conscience) is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution which focuses on human rights issues. Supports Palestinian prisoners, advocates for rights of political prisoners, works to end torture. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International USA Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Arab Association for Human Rights - HRA The HRA was founded in 1988 to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles. It is an independent non-governmental organisation registered in Israel. Association for Civil Rights in Israel - ACRI 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 Boycott Israeli Medical Association UK: The Medical Committee for Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) will document the systematic torture of Palestinian people by agents of Israel. It will publicise the practice in order to bring world opinion to bear on Israel. And it will challenge the Israeli Medical Association which has repeatedly failed to issue advice to doctors who are involved in any way with torture. Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. 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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