Torture of Palestinian Prisoners Continues

Left wing Israeli groups are obsessed with exposing any alleged violations of Israeli laws preventing torture of prisoners, but who - besides for Hamas - will make sure that the torture of Palestinian prisoners in Palestinian prisons will come to a halt?

Hamas: Torture continues in PA prisons

"Torture in Palestinian prisons in the West Bank has not stopped completely," Hamas legislators in the West Bank said, adding that the commanders of the PA security forces have been misleading human rights organizations and the media. The legislators claimed that new methods of torture have been introduced by the PA security forces, including forcing detainees to stand for hours and to stand naked in low temperatures, as well as verbal abuse and threats. They added that according to testimonies of released detainees, many were deprived of sleep for days and held in harsh conditions in solitary confinement. Earlier this week, the PA organized a tour for reporters to one of its prisons in Nablus, where Hamas inmates said that the torture had ended. PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was quoted as saying that the decision to halt any abuse was an independent one and not the result of pressure from human rights organizations. Fayyad said that 43 officers have been jailed, fired or demoted for abusing prisoners. But Muhammed Mutlak Abu Juhaisheh, a Hamas legislator from the West Bank, said that he was continuing to receive complaints on a daily basis about torture in PA prisons. One of the most common methods of torture being used by the PA security forces was forcing detainees to take off their clothes and stay for several hours in large refrigerators, he said.

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[the Hebrew prophet]

What,s Hamas trying to hide by it,s detention of English journalist Paul Martin?Methinks it,s all that lovely booty from Haniyeh and Mashal,s tunnel rental empire in Hamastan and the trail to Dubai where some of the nice profits were about to be trans
ferred to the Iranian courier for more weapons to be smuggled into Hamastan,but alas the incopmetent Palestine/Jordanian intelligence made a typical blunder so common to them and exposed their amateur hit squad .