In a recent report: Israel uses 180 investigation methods to interrogate jailed Palestinians

Saturday September 22, 2007 18:24 by Ali Samoud - IMEMC News

Lawyer Ahmad Shawahneh, a Palestinian activist in Prisoners' rights reported that investigations conducted by the Center on Palestinian political detainees imprisoned by Israel, affirmed that the Israeli security apparatuses are using 180 methods while interrogating the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli jails.

In a new statistical report, Shawaneh indicated to the rise in the percentage of arrests up to 200% of previous years, adding that 70000 Palestinians were abducted since 1967, which represents 20% of the Palestinians who went through the imprisonment experience.

Sixty thousand Palestinian civilians were abducted sice the out break of the second Intifada September 2000, while 950 difficult health cases are among the detainees and 95%of the detainees were severely tortured .

Two hundred of the prisoner's homes were demolished and 2000 families were prevented from visiting their imprisoned family members.

Regarding the female detainees, Shawahneh affirmed that the total number of them reached 620, 4.1% of the total number of the prisoners who were abducted during the al Aqsa Intifada, 116 of them are still imprisoned.

Female detainees are complaining of difficult situations, inhuman treatment and medical negligence.

Shawahneh also affirmed that since the outbreak of the second Intifada, the Israeli army had arrested 4100 minors, 432 of them are still in the Israeli jails, and 99% of them were tortured in different methods.

Shawahneh said that torture methods include violent shaking, forcibly put inside very cold rooms, noisy sound of music, beating on sensitive parts of the body and several other methods.

The report stated that the highest percentages of torture in Israeli prisons over the latest years were as follows; 98% were tortured during arrest and interrogation, 86% were placed in very cold rooms, 87% were tortured while their hand were tied behind their back while standing up, 88% standing up for long hours with a very smelly sack placed on their heads, 92% deprived from sleeping during the first interrogation periods.

Translated by Manar Jibrin

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