Palestinian sues PA authorities, says tortured for helping Israel

Last update - 05:23 07/04/2006


Palestinian sues PA authorities, says tortured for helping Israel

By The Associated Press

A Palestinian man sued Palestinian authorities on Thursday, saying he was tortured after he helped Israel prevent terrorist attacks on its citizens by Palestinian militants.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan says Ali Mahmoud Ali Shafi was kidnapped on September 22, 2001, in Palestinian Authority-controlled territory and tortured for six months.

Shafi lived in the West Bank town of Qalqilya from 1948, when the state of Israel was created, until 1994, when he moved to Haifa, the lawsuit says. Before moving to Israel, he helped the Israeli security services prevent terrorist attacks on its citizens, it says.

In September 2001, he returned to Qalqilya so his daughter could visit her grandmother, and members of the Palestinian security service entered their house and asked him to accompany them to their headquarters for 10 minutes, the lawsuit says.

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/703588.html

It's unlikely that he'll be successful but it's probably just on principle anyway.