Tag: Torture

  • Your Palestinian Gandhis exist… in graves and prisons

    Alison Weir | Counterpunch 8 January 2010 Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the…

  • One year after I was beaten

    Mohammed Omer | The Socialist Worker 29 June 2009 JUNE 26, 2008, is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day, I was detained, interrogated, strip-searched and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr…

  • Israeli to UN: Palestinian detainees kept in ditches

    Daniel Edelson | YNet News 7 July 2009 A member of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) testified in Geneva on Tuesday before a United Nations investigation team looking into the Israeli offensive in Gaza about half a year ago. Attorney Majd Bader, an Arab Israeli, told the committee that Palestinians detained by…