[ 17/09/2010 - 09:43 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Abbas's militia continued to kidnap Hamas supporters in all districts of the West Bank kidnapping 53 of them according to local sources on Friday morning.
The PA security detained 15 people in Nablus district, 14 from al-Khalil district, 5 from Qalqilya district, one from the Jenin district, two from the Salfit district, three from the Jerusalem district, two from the Ramallah district, nine from the Tulkarem district and two in the Ramallah district.
Meanwhile, Khaleda Jarrar, member of the PFLP's political bureau said that the PA's security arrested on Thursday nine PFLP supporters on behalf of the "military prosecutor" and that all efforts to get them released were in vain.
She said that Abdel Rahim Mallouh, the movement's secretary general contacted the concerned authorities for that purpose.
Jarrar further said that the PA security had sent summonses to 15 young supporters of the PFLP in Deheisha refugee camp and nine of them were detained, and stressed that her movement will work on their release.
The PA security claims that the young activists confronted its elements during an operation in the camp and threw stones at their cars causing damage to one of them.
PA source: Captives taken during PA militia arrest campaign tortured, abused
[ 18/09/2010 - 08:08 AM ]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A source close to the Palestinian Authority security militia in Al-Khalil confirmed that detainees held during the PA militia’s recent arrest campaign in the West Bank are brutally tortured.
This comes after several prisoners released the night before Eid al-Fitr reported several instances of torture and abuse during their detention.
Dozens of Palestinians arrested after the Qassam Brigades operation in Al-Khalil late August were severely beaten and brutally assaulted by guards and investigators while in detention, the source said.
The source added that he saw elements from the PA militia using force against prisoners without regard for their ages, underscoring that some of the prisoners aged over 50 years.
The source reported several cases of chronic medical conditions progressing due to beatings, solitary confinement, malnutrition, and physical and psychological fatigue.
Sheikh Mohammed Halayqa, husband to Palestinian Legislative Council MP Samira Halayqeh has suffered from severe stress and fatigue after he was beaten several times by investigators in the Dhahiriya prison and placed in the prison’s bathroom for long hours.
Sheikh Nidhal al-Qawasema, who was among the 400 deportees to Maraj al-Zuhour in South Lebanon in the nineties of the past century by the Israeli occupation authority, was knocked unconscious several times in the Dhahiriya prison after he was beaten and abused.
Sayyaf Asafira, a young ex-prisoner from Beit Kahil, bears signs of severe torture on his feet.
One detainee who was released from the Dhahiriya prison said in an exclusive interview that prisoners suffer from shortage of necessary supplies, adding that guards treat prisoners harshly and have banned even paper tissues along with other fundamental items.
There are more than 400 detainees from Al-Khalil alone in the Dhahiriya prison, most of them ex-prisoners, he said.
A large number of women, most of whom are wives to prisoners and war casualties, are interviewed daily, he added.
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