Monday March 17, 2008 21:35 by IMEMC News The Nafha Society for Defending
the Rights of the Detainees and Human Rights reported on Monday that nearly 100
detainees are currently under interrogation in Al Jalama Israeli interrogation
facility facing physical and psychological pressures. The society stated
that the detainees never see the sunshine and are not provided with decent and
sufficient meals while some of them are sick and need medical attention but
also barred from this rights. Some of the detainees have been under
interrogation since 180 days. One of the lawyers of the society stated that
he visited a number of detainees in Al Jalama and Petah Tikva prisons and
observed the bad conditions and harsh treatment the detainees are facing.
Detainee Rafat Yousef Awwad, from Awarta town near the northern West Bank
city of Nablus, is gradually losing weight and his body is weakening by the day
to the extent that he currently cannot stand or sit to perform prayers.
Detainee Mohammad Radwan Yassin was recently moved to the prison clinic after
suffering an acute infection in his stomach. He also suffered from a
slipped-disc in his neck and back.
The Israeli authorities, and in direct violation to the international law,
bar the lawyers from meeting the detainees during interrogation and keep
transferring them from one facility to another.
Interrogation periods vary depending in the mood of the interrogators, the
period could last for days or months while the detainees are tortured, confined
to solitary in small dark cells, and not allowed to talk to anybody.
There are 41 detainees who are currently at the Al Ramla Prison Hospital.
Some of them need dialysis; others have been through surgeries for implants of
artificial intestines, bladders while others are suffering from cancer or
chronic diseases.
Several human rights groups repeatedly warned that some detainees might
commit suicide due to the ongoing psychological and physical pressures they are
subjected to during interrogation.
An Israeli human rights group stated recently that a detainee attempted to
commit suicide after the interrogators lied to him and said that they brought
his mother and father to interrogate them, and that the army demolished their
home.
The Israeli High court of Justice barred these practices but the
interrogators did not comply with these orders.
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