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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11672335
Israel abused Palestinian detainees, say rights groups
Physical violence was reportedly used in almost a third of arrests and transportations
Israel's internal security service subjected Palestinians to abuse and torture while in custody, according to a report by two Israeli rights groups.
A report by B'Tselem and Hamoked said Israeli agents bound detainees to chairs during lengthy interrogations and insulted, threatened or hit them.
The report is based on interviews with 121 Palestinians held in the Petah Tikva detention centre in 2009.
Israel's Justice Ministry has denied the claims, saying it respects the law.
In a written response to the report's authors, the ministry denied many of the charges, saying interrogations were "conducted according to law in order to prevent illegal activity that would harm state security".
Pressure tacticsThe report published on the B'Tselem website also includes detainees' claims that they were held in isolation, kept in "appalling" unhygienic conditions, and subjected to physical abuse and sleep deprivation.
Many reported that the interrogators used family members as a means of pressure.
Alleged abuses
- Held in isolation: 78%
- Physical violence: 30% during arrest or transportation and 9% during interrogation
- Threats: 56%; Verbal abuse: 36%
- Use of hot or cold air flow in cells: 26%
- Sleep deprivation lasting more than 24 hours: 11%
The report cited the case of a 63-year-old widow who was brought to the facility apparently so that her incarcerated relatives could witness her anguish in detention. She was released without charge two days later.
The rights groups said the procedures constituted "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, at times amounting to torture".
The report also noted that Palestinians have filed 645 complaints with the Justice Ministry about interrogation techniques since 2001, but none has led to criminal investigations.
A statement from the ministry said that military police had opened 427 investigations of alleged violence against Palestinian detainees between 2000 and 2007.
It gave no information on any results of these investigations.
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agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL" means that I believe
it is important for the people of this planet to know about what people think or
do, even when what they think or do is completely stupid and against our
philosophy. When I selected articles in the past about stupid Christian
fundamentalists in America praying for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader
was stupid enough to believe that I was supporting praying to change the
weather. So, when I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic,
anti-Jewish, racist, revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or
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understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug decriminalization, it
is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very
clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs, as it is stupid to throw depressed
and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change
to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for
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absolute. That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
antisemites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your enemies
or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight them. With love
and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence of the French philosopher
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your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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