IOA uses electricity to grill minors

[ 31/08/2010 - 01:44 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli authorities will stop at nothing to pull a confession out of Palestinian detainees. Even children are not spared from brutal interrogation methods.

Palestinian lawyers say they learned from child prisoners that the Israeli intelligence service (Shin Bet) used electricity to shock them during interrogations in settlements near Palestinian cities.

Raed Salim Redouane, who was detained on Aug. 5, 2010 near Qalqilya, said Israeli soldiers took him to the Sofin camp, where he remained for 3 hours before being moved to the Ariel settlement for interrogation. A Shin Bet investigator slammed his head against the wall to get him to confess to the charges placed against him, before continually beating him vigorously on his entire body and threatening that if he did not confess they would burn him with a hot iron rod.

Mohammed Ali Ridwan, who was arrested in his hometown of Azzun on Aug. 3, 2010, said Israeli soldiers took him blindfolded after forcing him to remove his shirt. Intelligence agents then asked him to hand over certain items and tell them about their hiding places. After he told them he was not hiding anything, the soldiers began slurring insults and beating him with rifle butts and kicking him in the stomach and back before they dragged him to the ground inflicting severe wounds. Soldiers from Ariel then proceeded to grill him for several hours, during which he received direct hits to the head, face, and entire body.

Israeli troops arrested Yahya Ali Adwan, 15, in his hometown of Azzoun, where he was sent to Ariel for questioning. The investigator there hit him several times in the face and, after placing a machine with forceps on his shoulder, shocked the minor’s entire body with electricity. He was forced to sign a paper for fear of continued punishment after the investigator electrically shocked him many times on several parts of his body and threatened him with further punishment if he did not “confess”.

The lawyers met with a number of minor prisoners during a visit to the Megiddo Prison. Ahmed Sharaqa, 16, of the Jalazun camp, Ramallah, who is one of the jail’s inmates, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a 500 dollars fine. He has two brothers in the Negev prison.



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