Human rights activist tortured in Israeli occupation jail

Palestine Information Center

February 16, 2008

 

NABLUS, (PIC)– A Palestinian human rights advocate was subjected to torture in the Israeli detention center of Petah Tikwa that included sleep deprivation and forcing her to sit in an awkward position for three consecutive days, legal sources said.

Ahlam Jawher, 30, told the lawyer of the Nafha society defending human and prisoners’ rights that she was under constant pressure by Israeli interrogators to “confess”.

Jawher was arrested at the IOF Hawara roadblock south of Nablus city on 23/1/2008 after two hours detention. She was not allowed to see a lawyer until recently in a clear violation of the law.

The Nafha society appealed to the human and women rights organizations to save Jawher along with more than 100 other Palestinian women held in Israeli captivity and to pressure the Israeli occupation authority to improve their incarceration conditions.

Meanwhile, the same society reported that the IOA renewed administrative detention of MP Sheikh Hamed Al-Beitwai, 64, for three more months without trial or charge.

The IOA also ordered the administrative custody of Islamic Jihad leader Yousef Haj Mohammed, 65, for six months. He was released only a few weeks ago from three years of administrative detention. Both suffer from several diseases and are in need of constant medical care.

The IOA renewed the administrative detention of 18 Palestinians for periods ranging from one to six months.