Woman Editor Recalls Ordeal in Israel

[Classical_Liberal]

Asma Abdul Razaq


AMMAN, 24 August 2004 — Asma Abdul Razaq, a Palestinian woman editor who spent nearly a year in an Israeli detention center without trial, has described the experience as “hell.” In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, she said, “Torture and humiliation are the hallmarks of Israeli prisons.......

Asma said she was arrested after 20 Israeli soldiers, accompanied by sniffer dogs, raided her house in Ramallah. “They put me into a narrow cell after six hours of interrogation,” she said.

The Israeli authorities did not allow her to meet her relatives for more than six months. They tried her four times, but without allowing her a lawyer. They also denied her a translator and the court proceedings were all in Hebrew.

“Throughout the detention period, they tortured me with beatings and humiliations and threatening sexual assault,” Asma told the Arabic daily. She was also forced to listen to sounds of torture as well as loud music. “They took me into an isolated room and switched on a cassette recorder with the voice of a prisoner calling for help as she was being tortured,” she explained. Asma said she and the other women prisoners were given low-quality, poorly-cooked food. She added, “Sick prisoners were not allowed to see doctors.”.........

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=50383&d=24&m=8&y=2004

[babylon_system]

1. But Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East

Our biggest ally with whom we share common values. How could this tale of injustice be true? She must be an Arab (aka terrorist sympathizer).
/sarcasm

[number6]

2. kick

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