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650.000 palæstinensere tilbageholdtPressemeddelelse:
Palæstinensiske fanger Siden begyndelsen af den israelske besættelse af Vestbredden og Gaza i 1967 har over 650.000 palæstinensere været tilbageholdt af den israelske stat. Det svarer til ca. 20 % af befolkningen. Arrestationer og tilbageholdelser sker ofte på grund af overtrædelser af de ca. 1.500 regulativer der er udstedt af det israelske militær. Disse regulativer kan være ukendte for overtræderen, da de udstedes løbende og ofte først bliver offentligt kendte når de overtrædes. En arresteret palæstinenser kan tilbageholdes i op til 12 dage uden at blive sigtet eller stillet for en dommer. Når han er blevet sigtet kan han tilbageholdes i forhør i 180 dage, hvoraf han i 90 dage kan blive nægtet kontakt til sin advokat. Tortur - både fysisk og psykisk - er ikke ualmindeligt. Tortur er endda legaliseret, da der gives tilladelser til at bruge tortur mod fanger der "udgør en fare for statens sikkerhed". Tilståelser fremkommet under tortur må bruges mod den anklagede i en israelsk militær domstol. I begyndelsen af juni 2003 var der, af sikkerhedsmæssige grunde som det hedder: 1.847 palæstinensere som afsonede domme Palestinian prisoner's condition worsens after 25 days of hunger strike June 23, 2003 A Palestinian prisoner entering his 26th day of a hunger strike in Ramle prison has been transferred to the prison hospital due to his deteriorating condition. Twenty seven year old Ahmad Talab Barghouthi began his hunger strike on May 31, in protest at the conditions of his incarceration. According
to Talab, his father, Ahmad took the decision to refuse food because the prison
administration continued to ignore his protests of the conditions in which he
is kept; isolated in solitary confinement for the past five months in a prison
cell full of cockroaches and mice. "When he first complained about the conditions
the administration didn't care" his father said, "and then gradually
his situation has been worsening. He told the guards that he was refusing food
and they came into his cell and removed everything that was his, as a punishment
for speaking out. I have not seen him since he was arrested, and he has not been
permitted to see his lawyer "All he wants is to be treated in a humane way. He is kept in conditions unfit for animals. I want the international committees for detainees and prisoners and human rights organisations to see what is happening here to him and all the other Palestinian prisoners - and make Israel to at least treat them humanely." Despite the fact that Ahmad was arrested in April 2002, he has yet to be charged with any crime. Moussa Douwdin who was arrested more than 11 years ago is also on a hunger strike and has been hospitalised with Ahmad. For more information
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Israel Defense Forces troops swept into two West Bank flashpoint cities early on Tuesday, seizing more than 160 suspects in the course of a large-scale raid on Hebron and a manhunt in the Casbah of Nablus after clashes with gunmen there. The raid
on Hebron, in which troops arrested about 130 Palestinians suspected of involvement
with Hamas activity in the area, comes just days after Israeli troops shot and
killed Abdullah Kawasme, the Hamas leader in the city. Troops also closed off the old
city of Nablus and searched for terror suspects there, the - End - |
