73 Palestinians have died due to torture by the Jewish terror state

 

RAMALLAH, June 26, 2013 (WAFA) –Marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a Palestinian human rights group said Wednesday that since the Israeli occupation in 1967, a total of 73 Palestinian detainees have died from torture at the hands of their Israeli interrogators.

Arafat Jaradat, 30, who died on February 23 while under Israeli interrogation only one week after his arrest, was the most recent example of a torture victim, said Addameer, a prisoner support organization.

It said that a Palestinian detainee “is often subjected to some form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, whether physical or psychological, and ranging in extremity.”

The human rights group said the forms of torture and ill treatment employed against Palestinian prisoners include the following: beatings, tying prisoners in “stress positions”, interrogation sessions that last up to 12 consecutive hours, depriving prisoners of sleep and other sensory deprivation, isolation and solitary confinement, and threats against the lives of their relatives.

It said confessions extracted through such practices are admissible in court.

“These practices are in direct contravention of international law, including the United Nations Convention against Torture (CAT), ratified by Israel on 3 October 1991, which requires any State Party to prevent the use of torture and associated practices,” it said.

According to research by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, all 700 complaints of torture made against Israeli interrogators in the past 10 years were closed without any criminal investigation, said Addameer.

“On this day commemorating victims of torture, it is imperative that attention is drawn to the plight of the almost 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners, and the systematic torture which they are subjected to,” it said.

It called on Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, “to immediately form an investigation committee to investigate the situation of all Palestinian political prisoners, in particular the systematic use of torture they are subjected to by the Israeli security services and the Israeli prison service.”