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There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is [...]
DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities.
The release of the report came just days after an article was published in The [...]
Haaretz – Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year.
In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is shown in arid terrain, slapping himself, while a voice is heard instructing him to say "I love you, Border Police," and [...]
Beside the previous video, here is another good video that you should watch (recommended by Robin). It's not as comprehensive as Zeitgeist: Addendum, but worth the 50 minutes.
Also tagged 1930, 1931, America, black list, blue print, Democracy, dictator, dictatorship, Espionage, Fascism, Fascist, fascist shift, Germany, Hitler, italy, linn, marshal law, Military, mussolini, pinocchio, power, quo, Revolution, russia, second amendment, secret prison system, stalinAnother analysis about this story from Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. (He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.)
Also tagged Canada, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Israel, USA, VideosImage by: Carlos Latuff
Couple of days ago, reuters had a story that said: "Canada places U.S. and Israel on torture watch list". Today, the same story link was updated and replaced to say: "Canada takes U.S., Israel off torture watchlist".
The original story is no more available, but the magic of the internet always keeps a [...]
According to the indictment, the soldiers were responsible for transferring 13 Palestinian detainees from the Tulkarm Regional Brigade to an IDF military court in northern Israel in April 2006.
During the journey, the soldiers grabbed the prisoners by their hair, struck their chests and necks and demanded they repeat the number soldiers had previously assigned them [...]
"There was a shocking silence of the Jewish community on the issue of torture, and there is still a lacuna on this vital issue, to my eye," said Felice Gaer, director of the AJCommittee's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. "All Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, need to be more vocal on this [...]
Also tagged ADL, American, Jew, Jewish, JewsWARNING: You might find this video disturbing. It is actually as entertaining as a kick in the nuts. Unsuitable for under 14s. (Please turn your speakers up).
This film shows a performance artist undergoing, for real, interrogation techniques permitted in the CIA handbook (and it goes without saying – all other dictatorships including the "only democracy" [...]
Film shows six women who inflicted and witnessed torture
One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy.
The six Israeli women who feature in the documentary "To See If I'm Smiling" each [...]
Film 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 [...]
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, Prison, Prisoner1. Torture, Israeli-Style
According to A., during questioning a police investigator held his legs in the air, and inserted an object into his rectum.
"While the investigator inserted the 'object' into my rectum and removed it, he pulled my genitalia, as if he wanted to rip it out," said A. "He told me that he wanted to [...]
A report released today by two Israeli human rights organizations (B'Tselem and HaMoked) charges Shin Bet security service in regularly torturing almost all Palestinian detainees. Despite Israel High Court of Justice ruling from 1999 limiting the use of force in investigations, B'Tselem and HaMoked reported torture methods includes beating, painful binding, back bending, body stretching [...]
Also tagged Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, palestinian, VideosBy: 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 [...]
