Alleged Abuse by Israeli Prison Authorities
- - - - by Yoel.Ben-Avraham
by www.Disengagement.org Publisher at 08:26PM (EDT) on June 29, 2005
The public is encouraged to make known as widely as possible the following incident in order to increase public awareness and media attention:
A group of protestor detainees sat in their cell singing religious songs. One of the jailers requested that they stop. After they acquiesced to his request, the same jailer demanded from one of the boys to stop smiling.
The boy (around 18 years old) answered him: "My smile you can't take from me." The jailer took the boy to a side room and brutally beat him. The boy's face is currently swollen from the beating. In order to distance the jailer from the detainees it is necessary to create a public outcry.
Will the Israeli Prison Authority sweep this, as well, under the carpet?
[Moderator: the above was excerpted and translated from an underground publication that updates anti-Disengagement protestors on activities throughout the country. I have faxed copies both to the Prison Authority and the Minister of Internal Security to request their "comments"]
The public is encouraged to make known as widely as possible the following incident in order to increase public awareness and media attention:
A group of protestor detainees sat in their cell singing religious songs. One of the jailers requested that they stop. After they acquiesced to his request, the same jailer demanded from one of the boys to stop smiling.
The boy (around 18 years old) answered him: "My smile you can't take from me." The jailer took the boy to a side room and brutally beat him. The boy's face is currently swollen from the beating. In order to distance the jailer from the detainees it is necessary to create a public outcry.
Will the Israeli Prison Authority sweep this, as well, under the carpet?
[Moderator: the above was excerpted and translated from an underground publication that updates anti-Disengagement protestors on activities throughout the country. I have faxed copies both to the Prison Authority and the Minister of Internal Security to request their "comments"]