PA Security Services in the West Bank Carry Out Mass Arrests, Torture
The Arab Organization for Human Rights in UK (AOHR) said that it got credible information that prisoners in Jericho Prison in the West Bank are subjected sever torture.
Credible sources visited prisoners and confirmed the information stating that: “Prisoners are strung up on meat hooks like carcasses in a slaughterhouse. They remain hanged, while screaming at the top of their voices, for long hours.”
Several sources said that the PA carried out arbitrary mass arrests on the background of the bloody dispersal of protests in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares in Egypt last week. PA security services kidnapped people from homes and streets; and AOHR’s sources described the situation as a typical copy of what happened in wake of Palestinian division in 2007.
In this context, the family of the prisoner Kanan Mostafa Said Shatat, 34, married and father of four children, said that he was kidnapped from his house on August 17, 2013. The family said that a group of unidentified people broke into the house and took Kanan to an unknown place. Two days later, the family was told that the kidnappers were PA security staff and knew that Kanan was taken to Jericho Prison, where he immediately went on hunger strike.
The Public Prosecutor issued a prison order pending investigation for him but the PA intelligence services kidnapped him from the court and led him to their headquarters in Jericho, where he is being severely tortured.
Kanan and his five brothers have been detained several times by the Israeli occupation and the PA security services. They were severely tortured, but they described torture in PA prisons as being worse than in Israeli jails.
Kanan himself is suffering chondritis and consequences of prison torture as he suffered head fractures during torture sessions inside PA prisons in 2009.
AOHR said that it reaffirms that systematic torture in PA interrogation cells has never stopped and it has been widely used based on unidentified policies.
The organization emphasized that there is a fierce arrest campaign by the PA against opposition members in the West Bank based on no clear reason. Security services investigate and torture prisoners based on old charges.
AOHR called on EU governments and UN Secretary General to immediately intervene to save the lives of prisoners being currently tortured inside the PA prisons, especially in Jericho Prison.
Source: Palestine Info
Several sources said that the PA carried out arbitrary mass arrests on the background of the bloody dispersal of protests in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares in Egypt last week. PA security services kidnapped people from homes and streets; and AOHR’s sources described the situation as a typical copy of what happened in wake of Palestinian division in 2007.
In this context, the family of the prisoner Kanan Mostafa Said Shatat, 34, married and father of four children, said that he was kidnapped from his house on August 17, 2013. The family said that a group of unidentified people broke into the house and took Kanan to an unknown place. Two days later, the family was told that the kidnappers were PA security staff and knew that Kanan was taken to Jericho Prison, where he immediately went on hunger strike.
The Public Prosecutor issued a prison order pending investigation for him but the PA intelligence services kidnapped him from the court and led him to their headquarters in Jericho, where he is being severely tortured.
Kanan and his five brothers have been detained several times by the Israeli occupation and the PA security services. They were severely tortured, but they described torture in PA prisons as being worse than in Israeli jails.
Kanan himself is suffering chondritis and consequences of prison torture as he suffered head fractures during torture sessions inside PA prisons in 2009.
AOHR said that it reaffirms that systematic torture in PA interrogation cells has never stopped and it has been widely used based on unidentified policies.
The organization emphasized that there is a fierce arrest campaign by the PA against opposition members in the West Bank based on no clear reason. Security services investigate and torture prisoners based on old charges.
AOHR called on EU governments and UN Secretary General to immediately intervene to save the lives of prisoners being currently tortured inside the PA prisons, especially in Jericho Prison.
Source: Palestine Info
