The Director of the Center for Prisoners Studies Raafat Hamdouna called Sunday morning on the international and human rights institutions to pressure the occupation to save the lives of prisoners in Israeli prisons in the wake of the practice of the cruelest torture against the detainee Samer Arabid and transferred to Hadassah Hospital It is a prisoner in the basements of the investigation without deterrence or commitment to international conventions and covenants and international humanitarian law.
Hamdouna said in a press statement, `` The occupation state has followed the policy of psychological and physical torture and executions, ´´ pointing out that it used dozens of methods of physical torture against prisoners and detainees from the moment of arrest to pass through the basements of the investigation to obtain confessions by force, even during their presence in the cells.
He pointed out that these methods contravene the basic principles of treatment of prisoners adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979 and 1990, which emphasized the protection of prisoners´ health and medical care of detainees, and considered that any violation in this regard amounts to inhuman treatment.
He pointed out that the so-called Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision to legalize torture under the pretext of maintaining security, and Israeli legal experts felt that this decision would allow the ISA interrogators to use torture against Palestinian detainees, through the practice of so-called "special means", And described by the Israeli lawyer "Efrat Bergman Speer" previously that "a significant retreat from the moral and legal position decided on torture in 1999, under which it prohibits torture absolutely and without exceptions."
Hamdouna stressed that silence on the crime of disregard for the lives of prisoners by torturing them psychologically and physically under the green light of the Israeli courts under fictitious arguments puts the lives of the prisoners at great risk. Israeli.
