Report: Israel Exercises Torture Against Palestinian Female Prisoners
- Published on Wednesday, 27 November 2013 11:1
- http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/prisoners/6252-report-israel-exercises-torture-against-palestinian-female-prisoners
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said in a report that
the Israeli occupation has been exercising all forms of torture and
violence against Palestinian female prisoners in its jail.
The center's report was marking the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women that falls on November 25th.
The center said that the international institutions, which enact
laws prohibiting torture and violence against women, have been turning
a blind eye to the occupation's abuses and practices against
Palestinian women and female prisoners.
Media spokesman for Palestinian Prisoners Center, researcher Riad
al-Ashqar pointed out that Israel has arrested since the occupation of
the Palestinian territories more than 10 thousand Palestinian women and
since the Aqsa Intifada more than 1,100 women, 14 of whom are still
held in Israeli jails, including 5 patients.
He added that the Palestinian women are held under harsh conditions
in Israeli custody, as they are subjected to humiliating treatment and
repeated attacks by jailers, in addition to the policy of strip
searches.
The Israeli prison administration has also been holding Palestinian
female prisoners in the solitary confinement, depriving them of
education, and imposing heavy fines on them for trivial reasons.
Freed prisoner Muntaha Mahmoud al-Hih said she was tortured and
severely beaten by the Israeli soldiers during her interrogation, which
caused her bleeding in the kidney. She was also put in solitary
confinement and was cuffed for long hours, she added.
For her part, recently liberated captive Inam Qalambo asserted that
a number of Israeli soldiers arrested her and beat her on the face, and
then transferred her to Moscobiya interrogation center where they used
electricity in torturing her, during the interrogation.
Researcher Riad al-Ashqar also pointed to the suffering of the
patient prisoners from the deliberate policy of medical neglect adopted
in the occupation jails.
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies appealed to the
international and human rights institutions, particularly those
concerned with women's issues, to immediately intervene to put an end
to the worsening suffering of female prisoners, to work on releasing
them from jails, and to force the occupation to commit to the Fourth
Geneva Convention.
Source: Palestinian Information Center (PIC)
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