Israeli Supreme Court rules it’s permissible to imprison children as adults
14yo Palestinian Ayham Al-Salaymeh was imprisoned in Israel today after the country’s Supreme Court ruled it is permissible to arrest and jail children. Al-Salayme was under house arrest at his family home in Ras Al-Amud, East Jerusalem for fourteen months before his imprisonment for throwing stones at Israeli settlers who illegally seized the homes of Palestinians in his area. His father and brothers have also previously been jailed for resisting illegal incursions by settlers.
Al-Salaymah, who was just twelve when he was arrested along with his brother and two other children, said an emotional goodbye to his family today as he prepared to surrender to the Al-Maskoubiyah prison in Jerusalem to begin a one-year sentence.
He was also filmed receiving instructions from his father on survival in prison and the vital role of solidarity among Palestinian prisoners:
While Ayham Al-Salaymeh is one of the youngest Palestinians to be formally sentenced, around seven hundred Palestinian children are held in arbitrary detention by Israel each year and subjected to beatings and psychological, potentially even physical, torture to try to turn them against their people.
More than eight hundred babies have been murdered in Gaza under Israel’s genocide, alongside tens of thousands of toddlers and older children.
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Now that the child is in the penal “system”, Sir Keir will be watching him forensically. Can the for-profit operation that runs the jail be imported to the UK?
A ‘black hole’ and ‘growth, growth, growth!’ probably necessitate it to Sir Keir Starmer, the anti-Labour leader.
Human rights? Not relevant to HMG.
Meanwhile, another compare and contrast example of how the double standards “Rules Based International Order” operates, raises its head:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/why-does-biden-pardon-his-son.html
“Biden Pardons Son
President Joe Biden had earlier pledged not to take clemency on Hunter.
President Joe Biden gave his son, Hunter Biden, a full and unconditional pardon Sunday night.
The younger Biden had been found guilty on three felony charges in June in a federal case surrounding his acquisition and possession of a firearm, and pleaded guilty (..) to federal tax evasion charges in September.
…
Prior to the pardon, Hunter was facing up to 25 years in prison on firearms charges and up to 17 years in prison on tax charges.
Biden had earlier pledged not to pardon his son. “I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” the president stated in June, after his son’s conviction in his federal gun trial. “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.””
If such an event had occurred in the country of an Official Enemy – ie anywhere in the world outside the US and UK – the resident shill would be all over this site banging on about it.
As it is, such inconvenient realities are ignored and anyone bringing them up in polite discourse has invectives hurled at them in lieu of a grown up response.
Between the Cheap and Nasties and Thatchers greatest creation, the Prison population doubled to 80,000
It costs £50k a year to keep someone in Gaol
How much is that since 1979