High Court of Justice: Why won't they reveal the location of Secret Prison 1391?

Following the submission of a petition on the issue, on Wednesday, the High Court of Justice criticized the fact that the location of Secret Prison 1391 has not been made public

To allow the prisoners on hunger strike to meet with their attorneys

ACRI and Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterday (29.8.04) on behalf of seven attorneys and additional human rights organizations against the Israel Prison Service (IPS)

Security prisoners charge guards with humiliating them

Palestinian security prisoners have alleged that guards and Prisons Service officers at Nafha Prison deliberately humiliated them during the hunger strike. The inmates, some of whom have been in prison for over a decade, said they had never before experienced such humiliating treatment from prison guards and officers.

Adalah demands an end to illegal policy of limiting attorneys from meeting "security" prisoners

On 9 August 2004, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the Office of the State Attorney demanding her immediate intervention to repeal an illegal policy whereby attorneys' access to prisons has been limited or denied. This policy has been particularly prevalent in the Hadarim and Nafha prisons

Adalah to Supreme Court: allow the children of "security" prisoners to have physical contact with their incarcerated parents

On 16 August 2004, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel demanding that the Court issue an order of injunction instructing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to allow the children of prisoners classified by the IPS as security prisoners to have physical contact with their parents during prison visits

Serious violation of the rights of prisoners and detainees

The State Prosecutor's report, presented this week to Attorney General Mani Mazuz and Minister of Domestic Security Tzachi Hanegbi, states that the conditions and treatment of prisoners at the Russian Compound are unbearable

Naveh: "Hospitals will not treat security prisoners"

On Tuesday (August 24) Health Minister Danny Naveh declared that hospitals in Israel would not treat security prisoners on hunger strike. "I am not ready to endanger the lives of patients and the medical staff in our hospitals if we are forced to treat these murderers," he added.

"Security prisoners in Israel suffer like prisoners in Abu Ghraib"

This week security prisoners in Israeli prisons started a hunger strike, receiving support from leftist parties in Greece , which strongly condemned " Israel 's oppression of Palestinian security prisoners."

Druze against Muslims in the Interior Committee

Today the Knesset's Interior Committee discussed "the torture and humiliation of some Arab prisoners in the Shata Prison

Minister Hanegbi: we will not respond to the demands of security prisoners

Minister of Domestic Security Tzachi Hanegbi, Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi, and Prison Commissioner Yaakov Ganot held a special meeting today (August 13) to discuss the scheduled hunger strike by 3,800 security prisoners

Petition before the High Court of Justice: investigations into prison guard violence at the Hasharon Prison

On Tuesday (June 8), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice against the Prison Commissioner calling for an investigation into "the methodical violence practiced by prison guards"

Press release

Attention:

Mr. Yaakov Ganot

Police Commissioner

Palestinian women prisoners must be allowed to take exams given by the Palestinian Ministry of Education

On June 27, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed an appeal with the High Court of Justice on behalf of female security detainees after the Prison Authority refused to allow them and other prisoners to take matriculation exams given by the Palestinian Ministry of Education.

High Court of Justice: why are Palestinian women prisoners prevented from obtaining a secondary school diploma?

This morning (Wednesday, July 21), the High Court of Justice criticized a decision by the Prison Authority depriving Palestinian women prisoners of the right to take matriculation exams offered by the Palestinian Ministry of Education

Nafha Prison, bloc 10

It is forbidden to leave one's cell or talk on the phone. There is no work, holidays, or visits. This is how 800 of the most serious terrorists live in Nafha prison. They have internal rules as well: no drugs and no sex. Boiling plastic is poured on anyone who does not obey orders.

A prisoner confesses to 59 property thefts he did not commit

The Public Prosecutor's Office announced that police investigators in Hadera obtained dozens of false confessions from a man who confessed to 59 charges of property theft he did not commit.

Hunger strike at the Mikhal Women's Prison in Hadera

A Ugandan caregiver imprisoned at the Mikhal Prison told us that the reason for the hunger strike is the quality and quantity of the food that is given to the women at the prison.

Arresting others

Sunday's release of Youssef Subeih, Sherif Eid, and Tareq Nujeidat, after they had spent several months in prison on suspicion of having killed soldier Oleg Shaichat, raises many important questions about the relations between law enforcement authorities and Arab citizens of the state

The law for interrogating suspects must be applied immediately

Late last week, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) lodged a request with the Ministers of Domestic Security and Justice demanding the immediate application of the law for interrogating suspects

That's how they torture Palestinian detainees in Israel

The Washington Post : "That's how they torture Palestinians in Israel"; the paper reports, "Palestinian prisoners are tortured by violent shaking

500 prisoners forced to continually sleep on the floor in prison

About 500 security and criminal detainees sleep on the floor in their prisons every night, according to a statement made today (Monday) by Deputy Prison Commissioner Daniel Avidan in a session of the Knesset's Legislative Committee.

The Shin Bet has used "exceptional interrogation methods" 90 times since the High Court of Justice ruling in 1999

Since the High Court of Justice issued its ruling in September 1999 banning the Shin Bet from using torture during interrogations, the agency has used "exceptional interrogation methods" approximately 90 times on Palestinian detainees suspected of involvement in terrorist operations

Once more: on the sovereignty of law in the far north

The following are excerpts from a new statement issued by the Abna al-Balad movement on the continued detainment and arrest of movement activists. The detainees are not allowed to meet with their attorneys or see the evidence that is said to incriminate them. There is no news of the event in the official press.

The testimony of Anwar Yassin: 17 years in Israeli prisons

Although he's only 36 years old, he has spent half his life in Israeli prisons. His name is Anwar Yassin, a member of the Lebanese Communist Party. He was released in January in a prisoner exchange deal between the Israeli government and Hizbollah. His hands cuffed, he was taken from the place of his imprisonment to the Ben-Gurion Airport, flying to Beirut via Frankfurt, his hands still cuffed. He was received at the Beirut airport like a hero. Last week, he testified about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons before the members of the UN Commission on Human Rights. These days, he is busy holding many meetings all over France about the situation of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel.

Jerusalem jailers are inhumane, report says

Police in the Russian Compound holding cells in Jerusalem routinely use the internationally outlawed "banana" method-handcuffing prisoners' hands behind their backs and to their feet-to hold prisoners and detainees in the cells, says a report by Physicians for Human Rights received by Hmain en.htmretz

Terror behind bars

Testimonies about what goes on inside the walls of Military Prison 4 reveal a reality of daily harassment of prisoners and terrorism practiced by a mafia of veteran prisoners. Prison warders give the most dangerous, and problematic of prisoners the authority to punish their peers, beat them, and turn them into personal servants.

Prisoners at Shekma Prison refuse to accept the food

Criminal detainees in Shekma Prison in Ashkelon yesterday refused to eat dinner in protest at the poor living conditions.

The youngest Palestinian under arrest

Angry that his partners in the deal did not stick to their agreements and pay him what he had coming, R.A.’s response was to complain to the first people with authority and power he came across: Border Police soldiers at the “Container” roadblock, on the eastern road to Bethlehem from Jericho

Prison conditions in the cells at the Ramle Prison are unfit for humans

[ACRI's Lila Margalit sent a briefing to the Prison Authority regarding inhumane conditions in the Ramle Prison. The following are excerpts from the ACRI press release on the brief-ed.]

Gal-On presents a petition to the High Court of Justice asking for permission to visit secret prison 1391

MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) filed a petition with the High Court of Justice against Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz, asking for permission to visit secret prison 1391, subject to the authority of Shin Bet.

Female security detainees at the Neve Tirtza Prison: prison officials assaulted us with clubs

The organization Physicians for Human Rights is planning to lodge a complaint with the police to investigate the violent events witnessed in the security division of the Neve Tirtza Prison last week. Female detainees claim that prison guards beat and tortured them and would not allow them to see doctors.

Inside Israel’s secret prison

Detainees are blindfolded and kept in blackened cells, never told where they are, brutally interrogated and allowed no visitors of any kind. Dubbed ‘the Israeli Guantanamo,’ it’s no wonder facility 1391 officially does not exist

Systematic torture and maltreatment

In the last of issue of Hmain en.htmretz’s supplement, a hair-raising report was published about Prison 1391 (“Inside Israel’s secret prison", August 22, 2003, by Aviv Lavie).

Shirkers

I read Aviv Lavie’s article about prison 1391 with horror, sorrow, and anger.

Anonymous

[The author of the article was attached to the unit in the prison for a limited period of time in a marginal position]
The secret prison between myth and reality

Violence becomes endemic

The journalist’s [Aviv Lavie—ed.] investigation into the secret prison stirred up difficult emotions for me, and I imagine that anyone who reads the description of the frightful conditions in the prison will be shaken.

A report from the State Prosecutor: prison conditions are in violation of the law

A comprehensive report from the State Prosecutor, subsidiary to the office of Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein, reached serious conclusions about conditions in prisons and jails.