Report Accuses "Israel" of Abusing Detainees
Source: Alalam.ir, 22-06-2008
AL-QUDS--An ‘Israeli' rights group has reported that the occupying regime's army regularly abuses Palestinian prisoners, including children, after their arrest.
The Public Committee Against Torture in ‘Israel' (PCATI) released its semi-annual report Sunday, detailing evidence of abuse inflicted on Palestinian detainees while being taken into custody by the regime's agents.
It mentions 90 cases of detainees to have been mistreated by Zionist agents between 2006 and 2007, but said the actual number of cases is higher.
The report dubbed "Unlawful in reality - soldiers' abuse of Palestinian detainees" reveals that "on certain occasions, the ill treatment of Palestinian detainees is highly violent, resulting in serious injuries."
"At other times, abuse manifests itself in a routine of beating, degradation and additional abuse," it added.
"Minors, who must be granted special protection under both ‘Israeli' and international law are also victims of abuse," the group said.
It criticized "the absolute indifference" shown by the Zionist army's hierarchy, the war ministry, the parliament and the state comptroller.
"I was arrested by soldiers at the Dir al-Sharaf cemetery. They threw me to the ground on my stomach and started kicking me," Ahmed Yassin, from the West Bank city of Nablus, told the committee.
"When the jeep (to transport him to the detention facility) was late, they took me to a deserted spot off the road and began competing who can throw the most rocks at my head," he added.
An ‘Israeli' trooper told the committee that "We heard a noise, it sounded like someone was hit, so we stepped out of the car. We saw two guys and the prisoner outside the car, and the prisoner had a serious gash on his forehead."
"Everyone told us that he fell off the truck's step, but it seemed absolutely bogus... afterwards we learned that two of the guys wanted to have their picture taken with the prisoner, so they had him stand near the truck, and they stood on its step, which is about four feet off the ground. They basically kicked him in the head."
The report by the Public Committee Against Torture in ‘Israel' said the military chooses to ignore the majority of these cases.
The report said the fact that soldiers abused handcuffed detainees has become somewhat of a routine matter.
Even the cases that made it to trial resulted in convictions of soldiers on charges of abuse and misdemeanor assault -- offenses that carry no more than a four-month prison term.
AL-QUDS--An ‘Israeli' rights group has reported that the occupying regime's army regularly abuses Palestinian prisoners, including children, after their arrest.
The Public Committee Against Torture in ‘Israel' (PCATI) released its semi-annual report Sunday, detailing evidence of abuse inflicted on Palestinian detainees while being taken into custody by the regime's agents.
It mentions 90 cases of detainees to have been mistreated by Zionist agents between 2006 and 2007, but said the actual number of cases is higher.
The report dubbed "Unlawful in reality - soldiers' abuse of Palestinian detainees" reveals that "on certain occasions, the ill treatment of Palestinian detainees is highly violent, resulting in serious injuries."
"At other times, abuse manifests itself in a routine of beating, degradation and additional abuse," it added.
"Minors, who must be granted special protection under both ‘Israeli' and international law are also victims of abuse," the group said.
It criticized "the absolute indifference" shown by the Zionist army's hierarchy, the war ministry, the parliament and the state comptroller.
"I was arrested by soldiers at the Dir al-Sharaf cemetery. They threw me to the ground on my stomach and started kicking me," Ahmed Yassin, from the West Bank city of Nablus, told the committee.
"When the jeep (to transport him to the detention facility) was late, they took me to a deserted spot off the road and began competing who can throw the most rocks at my head," he added.
An ‘Israeli' trooper told the committee that "We heard a noise, it sounded like someone was hit, so we stepped out of the car. We saw two guys and the prisoner outside the car, and the prisoner had a serious gash on his forehead."
"Everyone told us that he fell off the truck's step, but it seemed absolutely bogus... afterwards we learned that two of the guys wanted to have their picture taken with the prisoner, so they had him stand near the truck, and they stood on its step, which is about four feet off the ground. They basically kicked him in the head."
The report by the Public Committee Against Torture in ‘Israel' said the military chooses to ignore the majority of these cases.
The report said the fact that soldiers abused handcuffed detainees has become somewhat of a routine matter.
Even the cases that made it to trial resulted in convictions of soldiers on charges of abuse and misdemeanor assault -- offenses that carry no more than a four-month prison term.
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