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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - September 2003
Actors
at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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Three Years of Israeli Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Need for Accountability Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 9/29/2003 Today, on the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, PCHR submitted a memorandum to the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949, summarizing violations of the Convention over the last three years and calling for immediate action to protect Palestinian civilians. The memorandum presents updated information on Israel’s systematic violations of international humanitarian law, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention, against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) since 29 September 2000.The memorandum highlights in particular grave breaches of the Convention, providing statistics and information on willful killings, assassinations, torture and inhuman treatment, closures and curfews, unlawful deportations and transfers, wilfully causing great suffering and serious injury, and extensive destruction and expropriation of civilian property. Download the report Adalah demands investigation Israel''s border police shooting of a Palestinian in Kufr Qassem Electronic Intifada 9/19/2003 On 17 September 2003, Adalah sent a letter to the director of the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit ("Mahash"), Attorney Herzel Shviro, demanding that Mahash conduct an investigation and recommend that the Border Police officer responsible for shooting a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Kufr Qassem be criminally indicted. The letter was prepared by Adalah Attorney Marwan Dalal. In the early afternoon on 11 September 2003, Mr. Salah Amer, was shot in the waist from close range by a Border Police officer. At the time of the shooting, Mr. Amer was attempting to convince a Border Police patrol unit to release his son and nephew from custody and to call an ambulance for them to receive medical attention. Mr. Amer saw his son, who had been badly beaten, sitting in the police car, visibly injured and handcuffed. The Border Police refused, upon which Mr. Amer was shot. Abdelrazeq: Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners Humiliated by Israel International Press Center 9/18/2003 GAZA, Palestine, September 18, 2003 (IPC)-- Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Affairs, Hesham Abdelrazeq, said that Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons are being exposed to harsh Israeli practices including physical torture, solitary confinement, beating and tear gas inhalation. In a press conference held Wednesday by the International Press Center (IPC) in Gaza, Abdelrazeq went onto saying that along with the said practices, Israeli prison administrations have recently installed glass walls in prison rooms, preventing warm family visits, followed recently by Israeli complete denial of visits made regularly by prisoners’ families to their beloved ones. Palestinian victims submit legal complaints against Israeli authorities in Switzerland Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 9/6/2003 Yesterday, Swiss attorney, Marcel Bosonnet, and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Raji Sourani, submitted two complaints to the Swiss Military Attorney General in Berne on behalf of Palestinian victims.One complaint is in respect of Palestinians whose homes were demolished by Israeli occupying forces; the second complaint is in respect of Palestinians who were subjected to torture and ill treatment in detention by the Israeli security services.The complaints call for investigation and prosecution of those responsible for these acts. Israeli Senior Officials Face War Crime Charges in Swiss Courts International Press Center 9/6/2003 Geneva, September 6, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- A Swedish lawyer has brought to the Swiss courts a war crime indictment against the Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz and his predecessor, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, for crimes they perpetrated against unarmed civilians in Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps. Marcel Bosonnet, the Swedish lawyer, told the press that he filed complaints concerning the destruction of Palestinian homes in the southern Gaza Strip in early 2002 as well as the torture of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli soldiers. PCATI: Shut down the secret detention facility 1391 Public Committee Against Torture in Israel 9/4/2003 PCATI calls on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz and Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein:Shut down the secret detention facility 1391 -- The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), through attorneys Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfard, this week called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz and Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, demanding that they the revoke the status of facility 1391 as a military prison and stop incarcerating detainees, suspects, prisoners or any other persons in it. Rights group calls on state to open up Facility 1391 Ha''aretz 9/4/2003 The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel on Thursday called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein to revoke the classification of Facility 1391 as a close military prison, and to refrain from imprisoning there suspects, defendants and convicted detainees. The organization''s lawyers, Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfarad, emphasized that if authorities are interested in operating the facility as a regular military prison, they must hand its management over to the military police. The facility must also be open to visits by lawyers, representatives of the Red Cross and human rights organizations, the groups said. |
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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 In Hebrew - 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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