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- Subject: Israel: Arbitrary Detention, Torture of Palestinians Continues
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- {From People's Weekly World, November 14, 1992}
- ISRAELI OPPRESSION OF PALESTINIANS CONTINUES
- by Hans Lebrecht
-
- TEL AVIV--The Israeli public was shocked to see, on the state-
- owned TV net Nov. 6, a Palestinian father of four who, after his
- release from a six-week long interrogation by the SHABAK, the
- "General Security Service," was physically and psychologically
- broken, hardly able to walk, bent over and supported by his
- brother. Relatives said that before his arrest, the man was
- healthy and went to work every day. Now he cannot speak,
- remembers nothing and does not even recognize his wife and
- children. His condition was apparently caused by inhuman
- interrogation methods.
-
- Since the beginning of the year, at least five cases of
- Palestinians have died during or right after SHABAK
- interrogations. The cause of death is generally given by the
- authorities as "heart failure," "internal bleeding from ulcer" or
- "self-inflicted death."
-
- A special report on "administrative detention," just released by
- B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the
- Occupied Territories, states that since the beginning of the
- Intifada uprising nearly five years ago, at least 15,000
- Palestinians have been incarcerated under so-called
- "administrative detention" orders. These detainees are held
- without indictment or court procedures for six months to one
- year, renewable arbitrarily, sometimes for many years.
-
- Currently there are about 1,400 to 1,800 Palestinians under
- "administrative detention." The overall number of current
- Intifada prisoners is reckoned to be between 8,600 (offical
- Israeli reports) and 12,000 (Palestinian sources).
-
- The report stresses that under international law and the Fourth
- Geneva Convention of 1949, a person may be held in administration
- detention only when a real threat to security of the state, or to
- an occupation army exists--and not longer than two weeks.
-
- "Conditions of internment for these detainess...are paradoxically
- much worse than those of prisoners, convicted for most heinous
- criminal acts, serving sentence in Israeli Prison facilites," the
- report says.
-
- B'tselem urges reexamination of all cases of administrative
- detainees, as well as the policy of administering the
- administrative detention. The Center also recommends greatly
- limiting the authority by which a person may be deprived of his
- freedom, without being informed of the charge against him, or
- told how he can appeal his custody.
-
- Regrettably, it must be said that the fate of the Palestinian
- population has not changed since the change of government in
- July, despite the pre-election promises of Rabin and his Labor
- colleagues as well as the leaders of the Left-Zionist bloc,
- Meretz, supposedly part of the Israeli peace camp.
-
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