AI: URGENT ACTION: Help Over 1000 Palestinians

From:  hbzadeh@btinternet.com
Date:  Mon Apr 8, 2002  2:36 am
Subject:  AI: URGENT ACTION: Help Over 1000 Palestinians
 

URGENT ACTION: Help Over 1000 Palestinians
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:41:04 -0500
From: campaigners@stoptorture.org


Amnesty Stop Torture
FEAR FOR SAFETY & TORTURE
Over 1000 Palestinians
2002-04-05 Israel

ACT NOW
Click on the following link to sign the petition:

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Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of more than one
thousand Palestinians detained by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), during
the past week in refugee camps and towns in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip. Some Palestinians have been reportedly tortured by being beaten
or held for prolonged periods in painful positions. All detainees are
reportedly being held in conditions which amount to cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment. A Military Order has just been issued denying
access of detainees to lawyers.

Detainees are being held at a number of IDF military camps and
settlements, but the IDF will not reveal the names of those they have
arrested and where they are located. In violation of international human
rights treaties, such the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture or Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which Israel is a State
party, detainees have been held in conditions which constitute cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Those arrested and
released have also reported being threatened and beaten by members of
the IDF who detained them. They have been handcuffed for extended
periods of time, and sometimes denied food, water and permission to use
the toilet. Despite the cold nights, many detainees and sleeping on
cold slabs and most spent the first night without being provided with a
blanket.

Under international standards, any person who is arrested, detained or
imprisoned has the right to inform, or have the authorities notify,
their family or friends. The information must include the fact of their
arrest or detention and the place where they are being kept in custody.
The families of the detainees, have not received such information and do
not know whether their relatives are dead or alive, following
unconfirmed reports that some Palestinians taken by the IDF were
extrajudicially executed.

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ACT NOW

Sign the petition and express your concern for Over 1000 Palestinians

Simply click on the following link to sign the petition:
www.stoptorture.org/urgent/index.php

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Together we can Stamp Out Torture

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