By, Bianca Zammit* and Fadi Skaik** | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises their basic human rights. In Gaza, the families of prisoners [...]
The UN has sent an official request to Israel to admit the existence of secret prison camp 1391, dubbed in the press "Israel's Guantanamo Bay," according to the Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs.
Minister Issa Qaraqe told a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday that the UN had asked the Israeli government in a letter [...]
On April 11 Mousa Abu Maria, a dedicated peace with justice activist and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project, an organization committed to challenging the Occupation using non-violent direct action and promoting Palestinian self-sufficiency, was arrested by Israeli forces. Like nearly 1000 other Palestinians in Administrative Detention, Mousa is being held without charge or [...]
Also tagged Activist, Israel, Palestine, palestinian, PSPUS adds a new scandal to its endless record of human rights abuse:
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of [...]
Guess who?
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The Worlds Worst Prison State:
"In 2004, nearly 7 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2004 — 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults." – U.S. Department of [...]
A feature story from British ITV news. It's only a short news clip, but one that US media will never air.
Also tagged child-abuse, Children, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, PrisonerFilm Summary:
Through startling interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness. The film probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to [...]
No, not in Arabian Land, not in America. Not Guantanamo and NOT Abu Gharib for sure!
When you think of a prison, the first thing comes to your mind is stoned walls and a huge gate with armed watch towers. That's not the case in Leoben Justice Centre, Steiermark, Austria. In fact here you can find [...]
Also tagged Austria, Court, Judge, Leoben JusticeImage by: Benjamin Heine
Couple of months ago, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, an ex-detainee, a specialist in Palestinian Detainee's Affairs and the head of the census department of the Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, prepared a comprehensive report on Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, which revealed that Israel kidnapped 700,000 Palestinians since it occupied the Palestinian territories [...]
Also tagged Israel, occupation, Palestine, PrisonerHere is a new sample of the "peace loving Israeli occupation".
The following video testimonies produced and published by B'tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation:
Video testimony – Maysun al-Hayek:
In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her husband were on [...]
A building formerly occupied by Fatah's intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution. Now Hamas is in control — and is letting former inmates visit the chamber of horrors. The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet, with only an overhead lamp to provide light. The toilet is [...]
Also tagged fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Palestine, Prisoner, TortureOne of the leaders of the Palestinian people has been incarcerated for approximately five years now in Israel. The time has come to release him. For years, Marwan Barghouti has tried to persuade Israelis to end the occupation through negotiation. He has gone from one Israeli party headquarters to the next, meeting with politicians across [...]
Also tagged Barghouti, Israel, Jail, occupation, Palestine, PrisonerAhmad Abu Haniya, the Youth Project Coordinator for the Alternative Information Center (AIC), was released from administrative detention on 14th May 2007, after two years of imprisonment without any trial or formal charges being brought against him.
Ahmad was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint on his way to work on 18th May 2005 and placed [...]
[Image by Carlos Latuff]
By Uri Avnery's – Gush Shalom
14/04/07
AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.
The term "negotiations" is really inappropriate. "Haggling" seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: "trafficking in human beings".
The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like goods, for which the officials [...]
By: Philippe Khan
Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians' suffering at the hands of [...]
