Kamal Adwan hospital director gravely ill after torture and abuse and facing unlimited detention without charge
The Israeli occupation forces have transferred Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital who was detained after the Israeli military destroyed the hospital and killed dozens of patients and staff, to special detention under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatant” law, putting him in open-ended detention without trial, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (AMCHR) reports:
The “Unlawful Combatant” law deprives detainees of their human right to due legal process and a fair trial, without even the right to be informed of any charges against them or to challenge supposed evidence.
AMCHR’s legal team has revealed that Dr. Abu Safiya was subjected to extensive torture and ill-treatment in Israeli detention centres, including severe beatings with cables and other items, and being kept naked and made to sit on sharp gravel.
Designating Dr. Abu Safiya as an “unlawful combatant” is an illegal and dangerous measure, proving the failure of the prosecution to substantiate the charges against the detainee.
Other medics also remain in detention. Al-Awda hospital director Dr Ahmad al-Muhanna was kidnapped by Israeli forces a year ago, but his condition is unknown or even whether he is still alive. Others, such as children’s doctor Adnan al-Bursh, have been tortured to death, along with many civilians who have been tortured to death while arbitrarily imprisoned.
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And they want sympathy and support for October 7?
Fuck rar off. I wouldn’t even flush the khazi on a plane flying over tel aviv.
Remember those times, not long ago, when such processes in Russia were held up as demonstrating what an uncivilised regime did? Our politicians used to tell us how we should be proud that we stood for the rule of law and justice all around the world. That OUR journalists were free to search under every rock and expose the truth without fear from the state. What happened? (I know what happened, as does everyone else, it was a rhetorical question).
Give it a while and the ‘long-term servant of the security state’, KeAr StIrmer ( not a typo) will be following Netanyahu’s lead: Anyone who challenges him – or his leadership – will be designated an “unlawful combatant”. This dangerous man is using the law to obliterate the civil and political liberties that guarantee our individuality and democracy.
Dr. Abu Safiya be praised. Solidarity with him, his people and their oppression. Nelson Mandela sais it: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
Qwerty,
I hope you linked to that to illustrate what passes for Communist humour (pathetic puns) and the dreadful cartoonists the MS “employs”. I say “employs” cos their cartoonists work for free. When The Guardian dispensed with the services of Steve Bell, (namedrop alert) I asked him where next for him, the Morning Star perhaps? He replied “Nah, they don’t pay their cartoonists!”
Steve Bell and Citizen Chicane’s genius is to make people see things differently. They both do that for me, anyway. The Guardnog will never dispense with Steve Bell, he’s too valuable to them and their pretence of being ‘left of centre’ newspaper- and if an ‘artist’ like him works for a political pantomime, there’s a good chance he sees himself as an entertainer and mainly/only in it for the money.
Yeah, I’m amazed he’s still there (if he is/ I dumped it pre-Corbyn)
No, they “let him go” last April, after putting him on gardening leave the previous autumn. A tragic end to the career of the best British cartoonist since Gillray!