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Prisoners Archive - October 2008
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - October 2008
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
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Jailing of Palestinian lawmaker draws condemnation Ma’an News Agency 10/15/2008 Gaza – Ma’an – The arrest and trial of Palestinian lawmakers by Israel is a “racist” policy by the occupation against representatives of the Palestinian people, said deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr Ahmad Bahar on Wednesday commenting on a ruling in Israeli court against PLC member Dr Azzam Salhab. Salhab, a professor from the West Bank city of Hebron, was sentenced to 46 months in prison. He was first jailed by Israel on 25 September 2005, and was elected to the PLC while in prison. He was a lecturer at Hebron University for 20 years. Bahar described Israeli conducts in that regard as violations of international law. He ascribed such trials to Israel’s failure to find those lawmakers guilty of any crime, except that of being representatives of the Palestinian people. He called on all the Arab and Islamic countries’ parliaments along with. . . Driver who sparked Acre riots freed to house arrest, has license suspended Jack Khoury, Ha’aretz 10/16/2008 The Galilee District Police are leaning toward recommending pressing charges against Tawfik Jamal, the Acre resident who sparked the riots that began during Yom Kippur last week after driving through a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in the mixed city, Haaretz has learned. Jamal was released yesterday to house arrest by the Haifa District Court. During his remand hearing his attorney argued that Jamal’s arrest was motivated by political considerations. They told the court their client denies the allegation against him. He was arrested on Monday on suspicion of harming religious sensitivities and reckless endangerment in connection to the incident. The maximum penalty for both charges is four years in prison. His driver’s license was suspended for 30 days. The city remained quiet yesterday, but Acre Police Chief Superintendent Avi Edrey said police forces would remain deployed. . . Asylum-seekers jailed due to gov’t dispute over contagious disease tests Ruth Sinai, Ha’aretz 10/16/2008 Some 200 asylum-seekers from Africa have been jailed for weeks despite a court order to release them, due to an argument between the Health Ministry and the Prison Service over financing the refugees’ tests for contagious diseases. Brahma Sanogo, from the Ivory Coast, was arrested six weeks ago on his way to work in Ramat Gan. Although he had an official document granting him the protection of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees while his asylum request was being reviewed, he was sent to Ma’asiyahu Prison. Only two weeks later, after his employer found him and arranged legal representation for him, was Sanogo brought before the custody tribunal, which hears the cases of migrants. The tribunal ordered Sanogo released immediately, after he underwent medical tests. Report: Sick Palestinans suffer neglect, abuse in Israeli jails Ma’an News Agency 10/11/2008 Nablus – Ma’an – Two Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups on Saturday produced evidence of maltreatment, abuse and medical neglect at Israeli prisons in a petition filed with Israel’s highest court. An attorney representing the Palestinian Prisoners Association filed a petition with Israel’s High Court of Justice on behalf of Alaa Badawi, a prisoner serving a 25-year-sentence at Nafha Prison. The petition alleges that Israeli prison guards failed to provide the inmate with medically necessary treatment. Badawi suffers from a stomach disease that, without medication, causes him to lose weight rapidly. As a result of the guards’ alleged refusal to give him anything other than diarrhea medication, Badawi currently weighs just 34 kg. The petition filed with the Israeli High Court compiles numerous violations at the prison, but focuses on the neglect of Badawi’s long medical file. PA forces accused of torturing Minister of Waqf during political detention Ma’an News Agency 10/11/2008 Gaza – Ma’an - The undersecretary of Waqf (religious trust sites) Anwar Mara’ba has been assaulted and tortured during his time in prison in Ramallah. Mara’ba, who is a prominent Hamas member and ran for office in 2006, was arrested on 10 July, as part of an ongoing series of “political arrests. ” Hundreds of Hamas and Fatah supporters from the West Bank and Gaza Strip respectively, have been arrested based primarily on their political affiliations. Many of those arrested have been local party leaders and prominent supporters. For Mar’aba, said a statement from the Employees Union in the de facto government in the Gaza Strip, his more than 60 days in Palestinian Authority (PA) prisons have seen him be severely maltreated. Mr Mara’beh has begun a hunger strike in protest of his ill-treatment. The Union released their statement on Saturday saying they were preparing. . . Medical negligence in Israeli prisons leads thousands to suffer Ma’an News Agency 10/11/2008 Gaza – Ma’an – Medical negligence in Israeli prisons left 2000 sick and at least 160 dealing with severe diseases without the aid of proper treatment according to the Center for the Study of Detainees. Director of the Detainees Centre Ra’fat Hamduna, who himself served 15 years in Israeli jails, organized several visits to the jails by medical professionals. The nurses and physicians were to provide basic treatment of the prisoners and organize further appointments and medications or surgeries for those in need. Hamduna said that medical workers found many prisoners in very poor health, especially as the weather turns cold this fall. He said medical neglect is certainly one of the major causes of death for Palestinians serving in Israeli prisons. In a report released on Saturday Hamduna asserted the importance of the health of the prisoners, saying that it is a crime to have the sons and daughters of Palestine suffer so badly in prison. Palestinian captives determined to reject orange uniform Palestinian Information Center 10/11/2008 GAZA, (PIC)-- The PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners’ affairs has confirmed that the Palestinian captives in Israeli jails were determined not to accept the orange uniform that the IPA wants to impose on them, and that they vowed to take unprecedented steps in this regard. In a statement he issued and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, Reyadh Al-Ashkar, the information officer in the ministry, pointed out that the Palestinian detainees reject the orange uniform due to the bad psychological effect that would inflict on them because the orange uniform was known to be the uniform for those sentenced to the death penalty on the one hand, and because it would replicate the bad picture of the captives in the infamous US concentration camp of Guantanamu on the other hand. He quoted the supreme committee of the captives as saying in a statement it issued and a copy of which was. . . Sources: PA security torture deputy minister of religious affairs in its jails Palestinian Information Center 10/11/2008 RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Informed Palestinian sources reported that the Fatah-affiliated preventive security apparatus in Ramallah kidnapped sheikh Anwar Mara’ba, the deputy minister of religious affairs, adding that preventive security chief Ziad Hab Al-Reeh interrogated and tortured the sheikh brutally in the Beyoutna prison. The sources also underlined that everybody in the prison could clearly hear screams of pain coming from the Mara’ba’s cell, adding that he fainted more than once at noon Friday as a result of the excruciating torture inflicted on him. In a statement received by the PIC, the family of Mara’ba held Hab Al-Reeh and the PA leadership in Ramallah fully responsible for the life of the sheikh. In a related development, the same sources said that the preventive security elements in the Beyoutna prison used a baton charge against the Palestinian prisoners and some of them opened fire indiscriminately at them. Soldier in shooting of bound Palestinian could face more charges Ma’an News Agency 10/10/2008 Bethlehem – Ma’an – An Israeli military judge is considering filing new charges against the soldier that shot a bound Palestinian in the West Bank city of Ni’lin, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported on Friday. Judge Avi Mandelblit said he was considering amending the charges first brought against Israeli soldier Omri Burberg. The soldier was formerly a commander until his indictment over his shooting of a bound Palestinian detainee during an anti-wall protest. The military judge apparently is reconsidering the charges based on an Israel High Court of Justice ruling that urged Mandelblit to formally accuse the soldier of crimes more significant than his original “conduct unbecoming of an officer” charge. Report: 20 kinds of violations committed against women in Israeli jails Palestinian Information Center 10/9/2008 RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The prisoner center for studies revealed that the Palestinian women imprisoned in Israeli jails are exposed to more than 20 types of violations, stressing that such violations start from the moment of arrest until release. In a report, the center explained that the most prominent violations against Palestinians female prisoners in Israeli jails are the brutal way of their arrest before the eyes of their children and families, the physical and psychological pressures during interrogations, the medical neglect and many other repressive practices committed by Israeli prison administration against them. The center said that the number of Palestinian women in Israeli jails is about 70 prisoners, 50 of them are serving different sentences, and five others are administratively detained. The center also pointed out that there are about 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails including 340 children. Report: Palestinian girls seized in June still held without charges Ma’an News Agency 10/8/2008 Bethlehem – Ma’an – A human rights organization appealed to the public on Wednesday to take action against Israel’s administrative detention of two Palestinian schoolgirls being held in a women’s prison since June. The Addameer Foundation said Israeli officials again requested an administrative detention order for Salwa Salah and Sara Siureh, two 16-year-old girls seized from their homes on 5 June. Their first administrative detention was ordered on 12 June. From the date of their arrest until 21 July, neither of the girls was allowed contact with their families. Salah was originally sentenced to four months, while Siureh received a five-month detention. A military court confirmed the orders on 18 June, though an appeals hearing reduced Siureh’s sentence from five months to four. Originally due for release on 4 October, officials issued the second order on 5 October, one day after they were legally free to go. After 16 years in Israeli prison Firas Jarar sat down with PNN’s Jenin correspondent Ali Samoudi Ali Samoudi, Palestine News Network 10/8/2008 Jenin -- Sitting in his Jenin home Firas Ahmed Mohammad Jirar recalls the vividly harsh memories of 16 years in Israeli prison. Jirar says he cannot forget being moved from one prison and detention center to another despite being newly released. "I am so happy to see my family, but it will be incomplete as long as there are prisoners in the jails. He continued, "The suffering is during the current period is seriously escalating. We must deliver the message of the prisoners and keep them at the top of the priorities. "Despite the warmth that greeted Jirar as he returned to his family and the people he has not seen since he was 19 years old, he cannot stop talking about the situation of the Palestinians in Israeli jails, the daily suffering. "The meaning of freedom is lost when so many of our people are languishing in prisons where they are living in the cruelest of situations. Israeli official to be prosecuted abroad for torture Amin Abu Wardeh, Palestine News Network 10/7/2008 Nablus - The Dutch judicial authorities failed to arrest Ami Ayalon, who is now Minister without Portfolio in the Israeli government, while on a visit to the Netherlands from 16 to May 20, 2008. He is being prosecuted for torture in 1999-2000 when he was Director of the Israeli General Security Service, Shin Bet. Ayalon’s term as GSS Director lasted from 18 February 1996 through 14 May 2000. The torture charge stems from periods in which he was "investigating persons suspected of committing crimes against the security of Israel. " The request for his arrest was submitted to the Dutch authorities by one of the victims, Khalid Al Shami. Lawyers for Al Shami in Gaza City, from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, have prepared the case file. The man resorted to seeking justice abroad after the Israeli authorities refused to take action, in part because torture is allowed in Israel. Dutch lawyers seek arrest of Minister Ayalon for ’war crimes’ The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 10/8/2008 Lawyers for a Palestinian who claims he was tortured in an Israeli jail are seeking a Dutch arrest warrant for former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, a human rights activist said Tuesday. The lawyers are appealing Dutch prosecutors’ decision not to investigate Ayalon when he visited the Netherlands last May. Ayalon is a minister without portfolio and the former head of its Shin Bet security service, which is responsible for intelligence activities in the Palestinian territories. The case is the latest example of Palestinians appealing to outside courts under a principle known as universal jurisdiction, which says some crimes are so serious they can be prosecuted anywhere, not just in the country where they were committed. Khalid al-Shami alleges he was permanently seriously injured after being tortured while jailed in Israel for 50 days early in 2000. Report: Minister Ayalon evaded arrest in Holland Itamar Eichner, YNetNews 10/7/2008 Yedioth Ahronoth says Dutch authorities denied request filed by attorney representing Palestinian who claimed to have been tortured by Shin Bet to arrest former chief of Israeli security service -Discreet talks between Israel and Holland prevented the arrest of Minister Ami Ayalon (Labor) by Dutch authorities, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday. According to the report, In May, when Ayalon attended a conference in Holland marking Israel’s 60th anniversary, a local attorney representinga Palestinian who claimed to have been tortured by the Shin Bet between 1999-2000, during Ayalon’s tenure as head of the Israel security agency, turned to Holland’s attorney-general and demanded that the Israeli minister be detained. Word of the attorney’s request reached officials in Jerusalem, who immediately contacted Dutch authorities to make certain Ayalon would not be arrested. Jailed Palestinian undergoes third surgical operation in Israeil prison Ma’an News Agency 10/7/2008 Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Palestinian sentenced to life imprisonment in an Israeli jail underwent his third major operation since his sentencing 16 years ago. Relatives of prisoner Rizaq Salah, who is from the town of Al-Khadr near Bethlehem, said doctors performed a cholecystectomy on the man as treatment for severe stomach pain. Doctors performed an appendectomy on the prisoner in 1995, which was shortly after they extracted liquids from his knee. Bethlehem-based Prisoners’ Society demanded in a statement received by Ma’an that Israel release Palestinians suffering from serious illness. The society estimated that around 1,000 Palestinians need urgent operations or are disabled as the result of being shot by Israeli soldiers during apprehension. Palestinian captives determined not to wear orange uniform Palestinian Information Center 10/7/2008 NABLUS, (PIC)-- Palestinian captives in the Israeli Hadarim prison asserted Tuesday that they won’t wear the orange uniform, which the Israeli prison authority tries to impose on them, urging Palestinian masses to support them in this regard. Lawyer Buthaina Dakmak of the Mandela foundation that caters from Palestinian captives in Israeli jails met Palestinian MP Ahmad Sa’adat, the secretary-general of the PFLP, and Tawfeek Abu Na’im, one of Hamas’s political leaders in the Hadarim jail, adding that both Palestinian leaders highlighted the importance of the Palestinian popular support in this regard. She also quoted the two leaders as asserting that four of the Palestinian detainees were sent by the IPA to the isolation cells for rejecting to wear the orange uniform. She said that the four prisoners were denied their simplest human rights and that they were completely isolated. Israeli Prisons Continue to Swell Amidst Talks of a Possible Exchange Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 10/7/2008 The Israeli detention of Palestinians continued late Monday night and Tuesday morning throughout several cities in the West Bank despite the fact that no attacks have emanated from there in over a year, and despite the ongoing peace talks in which prisoner(s) held by both sides remain a key issue. Their assault on the city of Jenin left several wounded, including two sisters in their twenties, and the detainment of two people for unknown charges. This, only days after an operation in Jenin in which the IDF entered into the "˜Martyrs Cemetery’ reportedly digging up graves. Tuesday also saw the arrest of five West Bank residents of Bethlehem’s Dehaisha refugee camp and an unspecified number of others were evacuated to hospitals for the beatings received at the hands of the IDF. In total, the early morning raids resulted in the arrest and detainment of 19 Palestinians according to the Israeli military. Daily Israeli invasions include digging up corpses, desecrating Qu’ran Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008 According to eyewitness reports, recent Israeli invasions have included soldiers digging up graves in Jenin, and desecrating copies of the Qu’ran, the Muslim holy book, by tearing it apart and throwing it in the toilet in several different cities. Israeli forces invade Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank on a daily basis, allegedly in order to abduct Palestinians that they consider ’wanted’ for various reasons. Often the ’tips’ to the Israeli soldiers on who they should abduct come from Palestinian informants who give names of their personal enemies, or from Palestinian detainees under torture, who give their Israeli captors any names they can think of in order to stop the pain. In recent weeks, Palestinian eyewitnesses have reported some particularly egregious behavior on the part of the invading Israeli troops. After 24 years in Israeli prisons, Gaza human rights proponent attacked by Palestinian police Palestine News Network 10/5/2008 PNN - As the party-based assaults between the Gaza and Ramallah governments continue with new transgressions reported nearly daily, the Gaza police attacked Rafat Al Najjar, his wife, son and brother-in-law in the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis. The 65 year old is a former Palestinian Legislative Council member who is the current Chairman of the Board of Al Dameer Association for Human Rights in Gaza. He spent more than 24 years of his life in his Israeli prisons. Gaza City’s Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which has field investigators throughout the Strip and the West Bank, called on Sunday for an official investigation into Friday’s assaults and for the perpetrators to be prosecuted in the justice system. Reports of the incident indicate that after noon on Friday Al Najjar’s neighbors in the Jourat Al Lout district of Khan Younis began fighting. Fatah member’s relatives say he was executed in PA jail Ali Waked, YNetNews 10/1/2008 Tensions high in Ramallah ahead of funeral of man charged with shooting former Palestinian information minister. PA says he died following deterioration in his medical condition, family claims he was tortured by intelligence service - Tensions were high in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday ahead of the funeral of Shadi Shami, a Fatah member in his 30s who died two days ago at a Jericho prison belonging to the Palestinian intelligence service. Shami was arrested in 2002 and was charged with shooting former Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr, who now serves as the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s ambassador to Egypt and is considered one of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ close advisers. Shortly after the shooting incident, which left Amr with a serious injury to his leg, Shami was arrested byIsrael. Fateh member dies in a Jericho prison IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/1/2008 Palestinian media sources in the West Bank reported on Wednesday that one member of Fateh movement died in vague circumstances at the Jericho Central Prison controlled by Fateh security forces and police in the West Bank city of Jericho. The sources stated that Shady Shaheen, in his thirties, suffered from a sharp deterioration in his health conditions two days ago, but members of his family accused the security forces of torturing and executing him in prison. The family demanded an autopsy to reveal the causes of his head. Shaheen was arrested in 2002 after he was accused of opening fire at Nabil Amro, the then Palestinian Minister of Information. Amro is now the Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo and is one of the close figures to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Amro was wounded in his legs during the period when the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, was surrounded by the Israeli army in his Ramallah headquarters. Al Shami family says son was tortured PNN, Palestine News Network 10/1/2008 Ramallah - The family of Shadi Al Shami is accusing the Palestinian Intelligence Service of torturing their son to death after six years in Jericho Prison. He was jailed in 2002 for shooting the former Information Minister and current Palestine Liberation Organization ambassador to Egypt, Nabil Amr. Palestinian Authority security announced Al Shami’s death two days ago. In an official announcement the PA wrote that he died of deteriorating health. Clashes between the Al Shami family and members of the Palestinian security are expected during Wednesday’s funeral service in Ramallah. Shadi Al Shami was a member of the Fateh party imprisoned by Israeli forces. Upon his release from Israeli prison he was taken by the PA. Egypt nabs 28 suspected infiltrators en route to Israel Ma’an News Agency 10/1/2008 Bethlehem - Ma’an - Egyptian security forces announced the detainment of 28 Africans nabbed at the Israel-Egypt border crossing in central Sinai on Tuesday. The accused infiltrators are citizens of Eritrea, Sudan, Chad and Ethiopia, according to security sources. Egyptian police say they detained the suspected infiltrators at Al-Arish Prison in the Sinai town of Al-Arish in northern Sinai, where police notified the suspects’ embassies. [end]  Articles
Another Israeli West Bank Land Grab Scheme Stephen Lendman – Chicago, Palestine Chronicle 10/10/2008 ’Israel now controls over 40% of the West Bank for settlements..’ Since 1967, Israel has systematically and relentlessly sought control of the entire "Holy Land" by seizing Gaza, the West Bank and all of Jerusalem. The entire area remains occupied and, according to Israeli professor and activist Jeff Halper, the aggressive "Nishul" agenda continues. It entraps and commits genocide against 1.5 million Gazans under siege in the world’s largest open-air prison. It also displaces Israeli Arabs inside Israel and West Bank Palestinians for expanding Jewish settlements. It depoliticizes the process to normalize it. Casts it as part of the "war on terrorism" and "class of civilizations." What Edward Said called the colonized and the colonizers. "The familiar (Europe, West, us, and of course Israel) and the strange (the Orient, East, them)." Halper refers to "adherents to ’evil’ religions, ideologies or cultures." Needing to be dealt with. Not people with real grievances, needs and rights. Israel’s solution: "warehousing a surplus (unwanted) population" in prisons, open-air ones, and by isolating and oppressing it relentlessly until all fight is beaten out of it. Others give up and leave. Palestinian torture victim seeks justice in the Netherlands Press release, PCHR, Electronic Intifada 10/7/2008 Dutch prosecution authorities failed to arrest Ami Ayalon, currently Minister without Portfolio in the Israeli Government, while he was visiting the Netherlands from 16 to 20 May 2008. An application for his arrest was submitted to the Dutch authorities by Khalid al-Shami, who alleged that he was a victim of torture from 1999-2000, when Ami Ayalon was the director of the Shin Bet (the Israeli General Security Services - GSS), which investigates individuals suspected of committing crimes against Israel’s security. Ami Ayalon was the director of the GSS from 18 February 1996 to 14 May 2000. Al-Shami’s evidence file was collected by his lawyers in Gaza City from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and he only sought justice abroad after the Israeli authorities failed to act on his allegations, in part because torture is routinely sanctioned in Israel. The Dutch authorities failed to arrest Ayalon, even though there was a prima facie case and they concluded he was not immune from prosecution -- that failure will now be the subject of a legal challenge in the Court of Appeal in The Hague, and an order will be sought requiring a criminal investigation supported by an extradition request or an international arrest warrant. LinksAdalah 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. 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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