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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: Torturing Palestinian Detainees |
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Torturing Palestinian Detainees
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| B'Tselem is the conservative Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy. A group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists and Knesset members founded the organization in 1989 to "document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel" to convince government officials to respect human rights and comply with international law. |
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| Since its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank (the OPT) in 1967, Israel imprisoned over 650,000 Palestinians according to the Palestinian peace and justice group MIFTA. That's equivalent to about one-sixth of the OPT's population today. The security services currently hold around ten to twelve thousand Palestinian men, women and children in its prisons under deplorable conditions with many under administrative detention without charge. Based on earlier assessments by Hamoked, B'Tselem estimates as many as 85% of them are subjected to torture and mistreatment in custody even though most of them aren't accused of terrorism. These practices are routinely and systematically used against political activists, students accused of being pro-Islam, sheikhs and religious leaders, people in Islamic charitable organizations, relatives of wanted individuals or any man, woman or child Israel targets for any reason. |
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'Tselem then discussed "special" interrogation methods that mostly involve physical violence:
-- sleep deprivation for 30 to 40 hours during which detainees left painfully shackled in interrogation rooms; guards frequently awakened detainees between midnight and 5AM; various type oppressive noises used at night to interfere with sleep;
-- use of "dry" beatings that included punching, kicking all parts of the body, striking with rifle butts and face slapping; detainees hit with clubs, helmets and other objects; heads slammed against a wall, floor or hard surface; beatings inflicted when detainees' hands were bound behind their back, and they were blindfolded; additional beatings during physical inspections with their hands cuffed;
-- painful binding with handcuffs or other devices tight enough to cut off blood flow circulation and cause swelling;
-- sharp twisting of the head forcefully and suddenly sideways or backwards;
-- forced "frog" crouching on tiptoes with cuffed hands behind the back accompanied by shoving or beating until detainees lost their balance and fell forward or backward; this method inflicts pain by increasing pressure on leg muscles and also hurts wrists after falling;
-- use of forced "banana" position that involves bending the back in a painful arch while the body is extended horizontally to the floor on a backless chair with arms and feet bound beneath it. |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Big Bird...
what has your research into the 22 Arab states regarding treatment of prisoners there shown?
Or is Israel the sole focus of your righteous concern? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:39 am Post subject: |
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Monkey see monkey do ... Rub-a-dub-man 
You support torture? |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:58 am Post subject: |
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No, I support our applying our human conscience and moral righteousness EQUALLY to all parts of the world.
When it is selectively applied to Israel and the United States, it loses all of its moral value. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
| No, I support our applying our human conscience and moral righteousness EQUALLY to all parts of the world. |
Who is US exactly?
Who's conscience & righteouness are you referring to? |
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sundubuman
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| If you have to ask such a question, then all I can do is wish your soul the best luck on its journey.... |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: |
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Simple question.
Why's the answer so difficult?
Why so evasive?
Hmmmm ... alrighty then |
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