[ 03/04/2011 - 12:19 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)-- A number of political ex-detainees, who were released recently, said the Palestinian authority security militias did not stop for a moment to use torture to extract confessions from detainees in their jails in the West Bank.
They pointed that the beating is one of these methods and it is the least severe torture if compared to strapping detainees to chairs, hanging them on doors or hitting them in the face.
Other examples of the torture methods, they said, that the Palestinian authority officers lock up detainees in solitary for long time or days without any sheets or blankets after removing part of their clothes.
In a separate incident, Hamas lawmakers in Tulkarem city strongly denounced the Palestinian authority preventive security for refusing to release prisoner Abdelhakeem Hamdan, who has gone on hunger strike for more than two weeks in protest at maltreatment and his arbitrary detention.
The lawmakers also slammed in a press release the preventive security for interrogating the wife of Hamdan and his sister during their last visit to the prison.
They appealed to human rights organizations to necessarily intervene to save the life of Hamdan.
In the context of the violations committed by the Palestinian authority (PA) against Hamas cadres and supporters in the West Bank, the militias kidnapped, according to a report by Hamas, about 70 Palestinians in last March.
The militias also re-detained during the month 52 Palestinians who used to be prisoners in their jails, and 44 other ex-detainees in Israeli jails.
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