[ 25/11/2010 - 10:42 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A committee of West Bank prisoner family members, in response to announcements circulating in the media that the Fatah authority will televise taped confessions given by West Bank Hamas supporters, have taken it on themselves to clarify that if such confessions did actually exist, they were given under duress.
“The history of the West Bank forces recording fabricated recordings is well known.”
The board cited in that regard a scandal exposed when a Fatah court found Moayyad Bani Awda innocent after he confessed earlier to a list of allegations. Awda was rearrested by the militia immediately following his release.
Several detainees in Fatah-controlled prisons were reported to have been admitted into medical centers with signs of torture on their bodies and bad health conditions.
The prisoner families contested claims by PA security that torture methods are not used against detainees, citing facts and witnesses who saw for themselves the prisoners’ conditions when being moved to the hospitals.
In a related context, ten students at the Al-Khalil Politechnic University were arrested Tuesday night following a seminar they staged in the facility titled “the war against resources”.
The organizers were components of the Liberation (Hizbutahrir) party’s Awareness bloc. The party supporters were arrested while exiting the university gates, where they were met by intelligence forces and taken to city headquarters.
PA security militias arrested five Hamas supporters in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Qalqalia, and Ramallah Thursday, most of them ex-prisoners who already served time in Israeli jails.
The PA intelligence militia arrested six elements from the Popular Front in the Nablus village of Awarta around the same time. Witnesses said the arrestees were beaten and abused in front of their families before they were apprehended.
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