Wa’ed: Israel practices the ugliest torture methods in secret prisons

[ 16/05/2009 - 04:42 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Wa’ed society for detainees and ex-detainees reported Saturday that all information available indicates that Israel practices the most heinous methods of torture against Palestinian prisoners in its secret jails, expressing disappointment at the Red Cross’s failure to visit these prisons where hundreds of Palestinians are locked up. In a statement received by the PIC, the Wa’ed society added that the Israeli intelligence imposes a news blackout on the incarceration conditions of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in secret jails, noting that some prisoners no one knows their whereabouts such as prisoners Hasan Salama and Abdullah Al-Barghouthi. The society also said that the families of Gaza prisoners are prohibited from visiting their sons and daughters in Israeli jails for nearly two years in addition to a large number of West Bank prisoners who are deprived from their families’ visits. The society appealed to all international organizations concerned with human and prisoners’ rights to urgently intervene to stop the Israeli violations against the Palestinian prisoners and their families, pointing out that it had already met with the Red Cross but did not sense any serious move towards ending the restrictions imposed on prisoners' visits.