Report: Torture widespread in Palestinian jails (AP)


Written on July 28, 2008 – 4:39 pm | by

Palestinian Hamas member Majdi Jabour, 33, shows scars on his body he says are from his time in a Palestinian Authority Prison, during an interview at his home in Salem near the West Bank city of Nablus, in this picture taken Monday,July 21, 2008. The rival security forces of Hamas and Fatah, one in control of Gaza and the other of the West Bank, have arbitrarily detained hundreds of political opponents in the past year and subjected many to torture, a Palestinian human rights group said Monday.(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - One detainee told of being beaten with pipes and having a screwdriver rammed into his back. Another said interrogators tied his hands behind his back then lifted him into the air by his bound wrists.


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