Rights group slams ‘appalling’ conditions at Israeli underground prison in Ramla
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has denounced the conditions that Israeli authorities are subjecting Palestinian detainees to at an underground prison in the city of Ramla.
It cited video clips released by Israeli media that showed Palestinian detainees and prisoners there chained inside underground cells without mattresses or blankets, enclosed by iron gates, and not exposed to sunlight.
Euro-Med said the Israeli claim that the prison is reserved for the most “dangerous detainees — whom Israel says are members of the Hamas elite and the Hezbollah-affiliated Radwan Forces — does not excuse the violation of international law” regarding the treatment of detainees and prisoners.
It added that Israel’s establishment of the underground prison shows that Israeli prisons and detentions are “designed to torture Palestinian detainees”. It also said that Israel’s decision to display images of prisoners and detainees there in “appalling” conditions shows the Israeli “disdain for the global justice system”.
This is a logical outcome of the long history of impunity made possible by the support that Israel enjoys from the US and several European governments, it said.
Journalist detained by PA being tortured: Lawyers’ association
Journalist Jarrah Khalaf is being tortured in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority for filming the events in Jenin, the Lawyers for Justice group says.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic cited the association as saying Khalaf is being investigated for filming news conferences of the Jenin Brigade in the occupied West Bank.
Charges of possession of a weapon were brought before the court, extending his detention, they reported.
Palestinian security forces detained Khalaf, a reporter for “Quds Feed”, on Wednesday while he was heading to his hometown, Jenin, according to the Palestinian
Center for Development and Media Freedoms.
He is currently being held by the Palestinian Intelligence Service under the “governor’s authority”, it said in a statement.
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