Legal expert concerned over lives of Gaza prisoners

Legal expert concerned over lives of Gaza prisoners

Jan 26, 2009 GAZA, (PIC)-- Abdul Nasser Farwana, an expert on prisoners' affairs and an ex-prisoner in Israeli jails, has expressed concern over the lives of Palestinians kidnapped during the Gaza invasion at the hands of Israeli occupation forces. He said in a statement on Sunday that those who are thought to have direct or indirect links to resistance were particularly prone to field execution as well as the wounded. The researcher recalled that the IOF had previous record of crimes against unarmed prisoners, and expressed concern that the Red Cross was not allowed access to visit those detainees or know the fate and number of them. He said that IOF refusal to disclose the exact number of those detainees could mean allowing the opportunity to execute some of them in cold blood, and called in this respect for investigating the circumstances that led to the death of Palestinians found under the rubble of their homes after the IOF withdrawal. Farwana underlined that Israel's announcement that it was dealing with those captives as "unlawful combatants" had thus allowed itself to torture those detainees or to detain them in inhuman and repressive incarceration conditions. The expert pointed out that Israel was still detaining the bodies of 16 Gazan martyrs killed since the Aqsa intifada broke out in September 2000 and during the years that followed up to the start of the Gaza invasion.

:: Article nr. 51237 sent on 27-jan-2008 00:35 ECT

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