Israel has admitted to the ‘systematic torture’ (also commented on here) of the Palestinian people held without trial in its gulags. This story shows the damage caused by ‘non-lethal’ bullets. Worth knowing is that such denying prisoners trials is in violation of Article 11 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights; however, as been pointed out here, Israel routinely violates virtually all 30 of these articles.
Palestinian inmate dies of wounds
A Palestinian prisoner has died of wounds he suffered in a riot at a jail in southern Israel. Israeli prison officials said the man had been hit by what they called non-lethal objects fired by guards during Monday’s riot.
Palestinians say the guards provoked the riot by searching sleeping quarters at night, and then used unacceptably violent methods to regain control.
There are more than 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails, many being held without ever having faced trial, the BBC’s correspondent in Ramallah, Aleem Maqbool, says. While some have been charged with security offences, most here consider them all to be political prisoners and their release is a key Palestinian demand in the negotiations aimed at ending the conflict, he adds.
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