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<div id="divNewsDatetime">Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:28PM</div>
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<p>It is these very images Raed Abu al-Hummus remembers of spending more than six years in an Israeli prison.</p>
<p>Raed is one of many Palestinians who have experienced excessive  torture in Israeli prisons. Now, a new report reveals 90% of these  prisoners being physically and mentally tortured by the Israeli security  service are deprived from consulting with an attorney or their family  before confessions are made.</p>
<p>The study, produced by the Israeli human rights organization, Public  Committee Against Torture and Palestinian Prisoners&#8217; Society, has found  that during some periods when prisoners are kept from meeting with  their lawyers, Shin Bet, begins its interrogation. The report cites  these cases as a an act of &#8220;systematic violence&#8221; and torture.</p>
<p>Many Palestinian prisoners who have testified have claimed that the  excessive torture and the psychological abuse were merely some tools to  get the prisoners to confess to crimes they were accused of. Ironically  enough, the prisoners were granted a visit to a lawyer, but only after  they have agreed to confess to the crimes.</p>
<p>According to the study, these interrogations go against  international and Israeli laws. Abdilal was sentenced to life in prison  for what he calls political reasons, but was liberated following the  Oslo Accords in 1993. He says Israel disregards international laws and  follows its own principles when it comes to Palestinian prisoners.</p>
<p>The authors of the study have unfolded that between 70% and 90% of  the detainees in the years 2005 to 2007 were forbidden to meet a lawyer  in order to provide council and assistance prior to signing a  confession. The average time prisoners were isolated from the outside  world was 16.7 days. Shin Bet has refused to reveal the number of  detainees who had no access to legal services.</p>
<p>Public Committee Against Torture has called for new rules on when  prisoners can be denied access to a lawyer and for cameras to placed in  interrogation facilities to monitor questioning- hoping that basic human  right will prevail.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157877.html">PressTV &#8211; Study finds Palestinians tortured in Israeli jails</a>.</p>
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