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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - October 2004
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Two detainees severely tortured and abused International Middle East Media Center 10/29/2004 Lawyer Hanan Al-Khateeb, from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that she met with two detainees in Al-Ramlah” detention camp, who told her about the dangerous situation and continuous assaults they are subject to in detention. Detainee Ahmad Mohammad Zaghari, 23 years old, and Khaled Nayef Salem, 24 years old, both from Deheishe refugee camp, in Bethlehem, told Al-Khateeb that the situation in detention is deteriorating, and that they have been subjected to sever torture during interrogation in Al-Maskobiyya detention in Jerusalem. Bad conditions in Galboa detention International Middle East Media Center 10/27/2004 Detainee Husam Badran, from Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, told lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s society, Khaled Al-Dosouqy, that Galboa prison administration rejected the demands of the detainees to have the right of visitations by their families. Badran appealed that Red Cross and Humanitarian Organizations to pressure the administration in order to cancel the barring imposing on visitations, and to treat the detainees in accordance to the international law. A Released Female Prisoner: Israeli Prisons Sign of Humiliation International Press Center 10/28/2004 NABLUS, Palestine, October 28, 2004 (IPC Exclusive)-- The Israeli occupying forces released recently Palestinian female prisoner Samar Atta Badr, from the West Bank city of Nablus, following being held in the Israeli prisons of Telmond and Alramlah over the past 17 months, where both her dignity and money have been extorted by her wardens...A part of the suffering she went through during detention, Samar said that she has been exposed frequently to beating up with clubs, sustaining fractures in her left jaw. Baffling bulletins from the muqata The Guardian 10/29/2004 All morning they emerged from Yasser Arafat's prison with assurances that the ageing revolutionary was not done for yet. Hanan Ashrawi, the former peace negotiator, revealed that "the president" had managed to keep down a breakfast of cornflakes and milk. This was interpreted as a good sign, given that Mr Arafat had vomited his dinner over his prime minister the previous evening before collapsing. Others marched out of the muqata to reveal that Mr Arafat was awake or sleeping, was eating or on a drip feed, was on the mend or not feeling too good again. Israeli Courts Rob Palestinian Prisoners' Money International Press Center 10/23/2004 BETHLEHEM, Palestine, October 23, 2004 (IPC + Agencies) -- A number of the Bethlehem-based Palestinian Prisoners Society's (PPS) advocates asserted that the Israeli military courts have been turned into black markets to grab money from Palestinian prisoners and their families. At least 90 percent of the prisoners have been sentenced to paying fines, especially in the Salem and Ofer courts. The above-mentioned phenomenon has been obviously increasing throughout the past four years, as some fines reached 100,000 NIS. Germany says missing Israeli airman dead Daily Star 10/26/2004 Manner of Ron Arad's death has not yet been clarified -- JERUSALEM: A former German official who negotiated prisoner swaps between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah says an Israeli airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986 is dead, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Monday. Citing a transcript of a documentary to be aired on Germany's WDR television Monday evening, the paper said German intelligence officials believed Arad died in 1996,after he was handed by Lebanese fighters to their Iranian sponsors. Michelin drops case against Israeli jail satirist The Guardian 10/19/2004 A 78-year-old man who compiled a satirical version of the Michelin guide as a political statement on the Israeli conflict has had a trademark infringement case against him dropped by the multi-national company. Shimon Tzabar came to the high court yesterday, expecting a fight after using the Michelin logo for his unofficial "guide to Israeli prisons". In the midst of arranging the date for an impending hearing, Justice Laurence Collins asked Mr Tzabar: "If you win, do you intend to continue to use the Michelin logo?" referring to the possibility of a new print run. Mr Tzabar said no. He told the court he had printed only 500 copies of the guide, of which two remained. Counsel for Michelin then said: "Well, this is news to us ..." [See Michelin Guides Sue Israeli Satirist over Spoof for a long excerpt from "The Guide"] More US soldiers charged over Iraq abuse Al-Jazeera 10/22/2004 Two more US soldiers have been charged over Abu Ghraib abuse even as the US government released more documents onprisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. A US military court in Baghdad on Friday ordered the soldiers, including an alleged ringleader, to stand trial over the sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Military judge Colonel James Pohl rejected a bid by the defence counsel for one of the soldiers, Sergeant Javal Davis, to force Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify at his trial. PPS: Israeli Prison Services Further Humiliate Palestinian Prisoners International Press Center 10/21/2004 BEHELAHEM, Palestine, October21, 2004 (IPC)-- The Israeli prisons services in the concentration camps of Telmond, Majedo and Maskobia, further humiliated Palestinian female and male prisoners alike. In a report issued by the Bethlehem-based Palestinian prisoners society (PPS) and a copy of which received by the IPC, prisoner Amna Mona, representative of 58 female prisoners , being held in the Telmond prison, told the PPS's advocate, Raed Mahameed that the Telmond's service has been recently further humiliated the female prisoners. Palestinian Detainees…Spiritual Trip in Ramadan Islam Online 10/19/2004 NABLUS, October 19 (IslamOnline.net) – Despite their harsh conditions, Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails seize the opportunity of Ramadan to spend a month-long spiritual journey, hoping it would help them endure the harshness of detention. They spend days and nights of the holy month of fasting in reciting the Noble Qur’an, practicing religious and cultural activities. Their families, meanwhile, pray and keep dreaming of the day their beloved ones will be released. “As Ramadan begins, all [Palestinian] factions in Israeli prisons issue strict regulations banning those who don’t fast from eating in public in respect of the holy month,” the spokesman for the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ofra jail, Aka Abul Nour told IslamOnline.net... Prison abuse back in the dock By Jim Lobe, Asia Times 10/16/2004 WASHINGTON - Thursday's recommendation by the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division that 28 soldiers be charged in connection with the beating deaths of two prisoners held at a detention facility in Afghanistan in December 2002 has spurred new calls for an entirely independent investigation of abuses of detainees by US forces in the "war on terrorism". The announcement, which said that charges could include involuntary manslaughter and maiming, as well as less serious offenses, came just shy of two years after the two prisoners died. Human-rights observers have deplored the military's failure to immediately investigate the deaths, suggesting there may have been an attempt to cover them up. "Taking 22 months to investigate apparent homicides that occurred in US-run overseas prisons is not conducive to protecting prisoners from torture and abuse," said Jumana Musa of Amnesty International USA shortly after the announcement. "In fact, the failure to promptly account for the prisoners' deaths indicates a chilling disregard for the value of human life and may have laid the groundwork for further abuses in Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] and elsewhere. "This announcement is further evidence that the ill-treatment of detainees did not start at Abu Ghraib, and will not stop without a comprehensive independent investigation of the torture scandal, including all identified and secret detention facilities operated or accessed by the US," she added. CIA has 11 Al-Qaida suspects in Jordan facility Ha'aretz 10/13/2004 The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held, Haaretz has learned from international intelligence sources. Since the war in Afghanistan ended three years ago, reports spoke of these special detainees being held outside the United States, but no location was mentioned. A report on these prisoners issued Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch organization claims they are being held somewhere so secret that U.S. President George Bush asked the CIA heads not to report it to him. Civilian toll in Gaza grows after Israeli invasion Miftah 10/11/2004 Ghazi Filfil was planning a business trip to Germany this month. That was before an Israeli tank shell crashed into the top storey of his five-floor house one night last week, wounding him, his wife and all his nine children. Even if he were not confined to a grimy ward of Gaza's Shifa hospital with a steel pin in his shattered right arm and a six-inch shrapnel wound across his shoulder, it is doubtful he would be travelling in the near future. Late last month, the Israeli army locked down the 360 sq km Gaza Strip, which, at the best of times, is described by its 1.3m inhabitants as the world's largest prison. IDF: Indictments to be filed against 13 UN employees Ha'aretz 10/5/2004 Israel Defense Forces chief of operations Yisrael Ziv did not confirm Tuesday evening whether or not the army was justified in its accusation that Palestinian militants had loaded a Qassam rocket into a United Nations ambulance in the Gaza Strip. He also said the IDF has arrested 13 Palestinians employed by the UN who are suspected of participating in terror activities in the Gaza Strip. The IDF will be filing indictments against the suspects in the near future."We have in our hands a list of 13 detainees who are to be indicted, they are UN people with suspected links to terrorism," Ziv said. PCHR Condemns Murder of 2 Prisoners in Nablus Central Prison Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 10/2/2004 PCHR strongly condemns the murder perpetrated by a number of Palestinian gunmen, which left dead 2 criminal prisoners in Nablus Central Prison on Friday, 1 October 2004.This crime, which was not the first of its kind, indicates a total absence of the rule of law, the continued proliferation of weapons and the failure of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and law enforcement bodies to fulfill their duties to protect prisoners. Detainees abused in Al-Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem International Middle East Media Center 9/30/2004 The Prisoners' Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in Ramallah, said in a press release on Wednesday, that lawyer Firas Sabah, visited Al-Maskobiyya prison on Wednesday morning and met with detainee Nasri Al-Aassi and Baher Bader, both from Beit Liqya, near Ramallah, who told him about the continuous violations conducted against the detainees in the prison. |
Israel rampant By Azmi Bishara, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 10/21/2004 The Sinai bombings present Sharon with an opportunity to further marginalise the Palestinian cause. He will exploit it with relish -- That Israel's Gaza rampage was not just a response to the firing of Qassam missiles does not mean we have to subscribe to claims that Israel needs no excuse for its actions. That argument, with its implication that no means of combat can influence Israeli policy or behaviour, is self-defeating. The latest Israeli incursion into Gaza was not unrelated to the rudimentary weapon -- missile is perhaps too grand a term for these devices -- Gazans have developed to fight the situation into which they have been thrust, a situation, unprecedented in modern history, that essentially locks a million and a half people into a prison with two gates. Israeli violence in Gaza, in Jenin and Nablus, is structurally integral to the problems of disengagement -- you cannot impose a unilateral solution to a conflict without recourse to extraordinary levels of violence. Unlike the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon where a sovereign state claimed control and responsibility on the evacuated areas, the issue in Gaza is not just one of unilateral withdrawal, but of redeployment on conditions Israel believes will consolidate its control over areas of the West Bank. It hopes to control Gaza with less friction from the outside and annex parts of the West Bank while at the same time improving its international standing and alleviating international pressures to engage in a settlement process Israel neither wants nor can engage in given its current leadership and the state of public opinion. (Sharon's determination to abort any possibility of negotiations with Syria has been splashed across Israeli newspapers.)
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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 Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel. 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. Palestinian Center 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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