CIA helps PA agents torture Hamas supporters
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:51 GMT
Arrested members of Hamas seen in their cell at a PA prison
in the West Bank city of Jenin.
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Palestinian security agents have been torturing supporters
of the Hamas movement in their custody in the West Bank in
cooperation with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a
report says.
Some western diplomats, together with regional officials,
say that the relationship between the CIA and the two
Palestinian agencies involved - Preventive Security
Organization (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) -
is so close that the American agency appears to be
supervising the Palestinians' work, according to a report
published in The Guardian newspaper.
"The [Central Intelligence] Agency considers them as their
property, those two Palestinian services," one senior
western official said. A diplomatic source added that US
influence over the agencies was so great they could be
considered "an advanced arm of the war on terror."
Details of the cooperation between the CIA and Palestinian
security agents comes to light as continuing use of torture,
as well as abusive interrogations, in the occupied West bank
has been widely documented by human rights groups, the
report added.
Most of those held without trial and allegedly tortured in
the West Bank have been supporters of Hamas, which won a
large majority in the Palestinian parliament in January
2006, it went on to note.
The most common mistreatment, according to the report, is
that detainees are severely beaten and subjected to a
torture known as 'shabeh', during which they are shackled
and forced to assume painful positions for long periods.
There have also been reports of sleep deprivation, and of
large numbers of detainees being crammed into small cells to
prevent rest.
Almost all the detainees enter a system of military justice
under which they need not be brought before a court for six
months. This flagrantly violates the prisoners' rights since
their cases should, in actual fact, be brought before
civilian courts.
According to Palestinian Authority officials, between 400
and 500 Hamas supporters are currently held by the PSO and
GI.
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