Report: Israeli authorities deliberately mistreat Palestinians during prison transport

Saturday September 06, 2008 18:08 by Palestine News Network - PNN

A report issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Saturday indicates that torturous conditions are the norm during transport.

The report found that “prisoners are waiting in trucks for over five hours without food, water or ventilation in the summer, and without heat during the winter. The ill suffer even more as they are chained in two's."

Today’s report focused on the transport between prisons and to and from the court or the hospital.

The Ministry also stated that “Israeli prison authorities deliberately exercise various forms of maltreatment and torture against Palestinian prisoners in order to pressure them and weaken their morale while being transported."

Even more, "the prison administration will not inform the imprisoned of the transfer to a new location until the night before so there is not adequate time for him to prepare himself. He is subjected to a humiliating and provocative search process that leaves him a naked prisoner."

Israeli forces are holding over 11,000 Palestinians in 20 prisons and detention centers.

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