Studies center: Illegal practices against children rampant in Israeli jails

[ 23/09/2009 - 10:29 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The prisoners' center for studies has said that around 400 Palestinian children held in Israeli occupation jails are exposed to illegal practices that require immediate intervention on the part of human rights groups. The center in a statement on Wednesday said that the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) was violating all international norms and doctrines that protect those minors and necessitate dealing with them as children and not as "terrorists". A freed child told the center that the IPA was violating the detained children's simplest rights. He added that Israeli jailors regularly beat those children, threaten them with banning family visits, cram them in crowded cells and isolate and terrorize them other than depriving them of education. The center said that the children were lacking medical care and were held near to Jewish homicide convicts.