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Mosby

(16,319 posts)
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:35 PM Feb 2016

Torture in Palestinian detention centers exposed by Palestinian human rights organization

Last month, the Palestinian organization the Independent Commission for Human Rights exposed that torture is being used in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to make suspects confess during interrogations, the independent Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.

General Director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights Dr. Ammar Dwaik explained that torture like "whippings, hanging a person from his hands while they are tied behind his back, verbal abuse, sleep deprivation and whipping the soles of feet" is being carried out in Palestinian detention centers by individuals despite the fact that it is against the law. The report stated that this happens with the knowledge of PA security forces. There were more complaints in the Gaza Strip than in the PA:

"The Independent Commission for Human Rights received 292 complaints from citizens regarding torture, maltreatment, and physical assault in the West Bank, and 928 in the Gaza Strip this year [2015]... most of the types of torture and physical assaults take place during demonstrations, detention, and interrogations in detention centers in order to extract confessions."
[Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 16, 2015]


All cases of torture under PA jurisdiction violate Palestinian law. Official spokesman of the PA National Security Forces in the West Bank Adnan Al-Damiri stated in response to the ICHR report that whoever engages in torture "is a criminal and should be prosecuted."

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=17087
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shira

(30,109 posts)
1. Where are all the hand-wringing, outraged Palestinian "Human Rights" advocates now?
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 04:12 PM
Feb 2016

They're Yawning.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
2. I see when they can't trash Israel
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:36 AM
Feb 2016

or someone in the West, the usual suspects ignore this story. How pathetically predictable. They only care about Palestinians when it concerns Israel - this is just more proof of that.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
4. It's on video. What more do you need? You'll note that NO ONE.....
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 01:22 PM
Feb 2016

Last edited Wed Feb 3, 2016, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)

....in their right mind questions PMW videos from the past several months that point to PA incitement.

In more than a decade of work and 1000's of videos later, there's only 1 video translation that's ever been challenged. And even that was weak based on the context.

When YOUR sources start actually reporting on real Palestinian incitement, as well as PA human rights violations like torture - let us know.

Until then, your sources are shit.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
6. Like incitement, this PA torture is fact.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 11:04 PM
Feb 2016

Your sources that choose to censor this information critical of the fascist PA are spewing 1-sided propaganda.

Until they report the facts, they're shit.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
8. OK! OK!
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:10 AM
Feb 2016

I don't particularly prefer Ma'an News either, but it's a news source, so I guess a comment on that article is in order.

I'm completely opposed to any forms of torture or manhandling of suspects. What the Palestinian security forces are doing is very wrong, and the sheer number of allegations seem to indicate that the use of torture is endemic. As usual, the PA says it's going to stop this, but as usual nothing's done about it.

I think that exposing torture is the first step toward eradicating it. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is prepared to go a step further and actually spend any resources on eradicating these practices. The end result will be that the PA justice will remain arbitrary and corrupt.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
9. Now until your favorite news outlets report on this, they're shit.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:00 AM
Feb 2016

They won't do it because they value their reporters' lives.

That means what the PA wants, the media will report. Same for Hamas in Gaza. The media will spew their propaganda & censor gross human rights violations by the PA and Hamas. Not always due to intimidation, but also anti-Israel bias.

You can't learn anything from such media when they're basically media outlets for fascist propaganda.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
10. Of course...
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 04:09 AM
Feb 2016

Either way, I believe that the only feasible way to get the PA on the right track in the long-term is to remove the occupation and Israeli control of the West Bank.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
11. despite having laws against the PA does use torture although it says it has fired officers for the
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 06:53 AM
Feb 2016

practice from your link

Commenting on the ICHR remarks in the West Bank, spokesman of the Palestinian Authority’s security services Adnan Dmeiri told Ma’an that torture during interrogation is “prohibited under Palestinian law and those who practice it must be tried in court.”

Dmeiri referred to any cases of torture in PA detention centers as “extrajudicial individual practices” that violate the instructions given by leaders of security services.

Dmeiri added that there have been cases of punishment against PA security officers in the past, including termination of service.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2014 signed the letter of accession to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Dwaik told Ma’an that since Palestine became a signatory to the convention, the Palestinian political echelon started to pay more attention to human rights issues.

Despite a perceived change in attitude towards torture in Palestinian detention centers, the ICHR director told Ma’an: “There is still a long way to go until torture is completely stopped.”


https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769362

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
13. I reposted a snip from your own Maan link , the same information is in the PalWatch article
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:18 AM
Feb 2016

is this something you would rather keep unknown?

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