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Palestinian prisoners testify to Zionist torture methods



Palestinian prisoners testify to Zionist torture methods
Feb 29, 2004, 09:26

Bethlehem - A number of Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails have
confirmed in testimonies before visiting lawyers of the Palestinian prisoner
's club that they were subjected to various forms of cruel torture during
interrogation rounds.

Lawyers Fahmi Al-Ewewe, Ma'mun Al-Husheim, Karim Hamoda, Faten Al-Oseibi and
Louay Akka, who visited the Zionist detention centers in Maskobeh, Askalan
and Ofer, quoted prisoners as saying that internationally-banned and
humiliating methods were pursued in interrogating the prisoners who included
minors.

They listed those methods as following:
1-Beatings and harassment.
2-Sitting in awkward positions for long periods of time.
3-Depriving them of sleep and toilets.
4-Threatening to arrest wives and parents.
5-Medical negligence and blackmailing them over treatment.
6-Banning them from meeting lawyers for long periods.
7-Rape threats.
8-Provoking agents into assaulting them.

One of the detainees, a teenaged girl, said that a Zionist interrogator in
the Maskobeh detention center savagely beat her in the stomach and face.
Rawan Hassan Abdullah, 17, who was arrested on 31/1/2004, said that she was
suffering from several diseases but would not be allowed to see a doctor.

Another 18 years old detainee Nidal Yousef Juma Ghawanma, who was arrested
on 26/11/2003, said that Zionist interrogators in Atsion jail severely beat
him in the face and stomach and that he felt dizziness in the head.

He said that interrogators took him to the prison's yard blindfolded and
told him they would throw him in the water well but one of the soldiers
pushed him into barbed wires and beat him all over leading to painful
injuries in his face and fractures.

Detainee Mahmoud Abed Odeh Ubayat, who was arrested on 19/1/2004, said that
he was beaten up at the hands of agents.

He said that in Maskobeh interrogators questioned him for 15 consecutive
hours and deprived him of sleep for a week and was deprived of toilets
during his interrogation rounds. They also threatened to arrest his family
members, the detainee elaborated.