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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					23/01/2011 &#8211; 06:38 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NAZARETH, (PIC)&#8211; Senior British  officer James MacInnis admitted that Britain are involved in the torture  of Palestinian political detainee in the Palestinian authority&#8217;s jails  in the West Bank and provide financial support for the PA in this  regard.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">MacInnin, who in charge of the training  program for top security officials from the Palestinian authority (PA),  made these remarks following a report issued by the Arab organization  for human rights in London saying that the PA has been torturing  prisoners affiliated with Hamas for years.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">According to this report, torture  techniques used in PA prisons included shabh (hanging) of all kinds,  beatings with cables, pulling out nails, suspension from the ceiling,  flogging, kicking, cursing, electric shocks, sexual harassment and the  threat of rape.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">At least six Palestinians have died under  torture in PA prisons and many former detainees have permanent physical  disabilities, the report found.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The human rights organization said that it has documented such “crimes” for three years, from October 2007 to October 2010.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">During that period, the report said, PA  security forces in the West Bank detained 8, 640 Palestinians at a rate  of eight arrests per day.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">“Every one of those detainees has been  subject to humiliating and degrading treatment, and stayed in cells for  more than 10 days,” the report said. “The analysis shows that an  astonishing 95 percent of the detainees were subjected to severe  torture, others feeling the detrimental effects on their health for  varying periods.”</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report also found that 77 percent of  those who had been detained by the PA security forces had been arrested  in the past by Israel.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Representatives of the organization met  with victims, or their relatives, and distributed a questionnaire, in  secret, to detainees who were held in PA prisons.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">“Men and women from all sectors of  Palestinian society have been subject to arrest and torture,” the report  noted. “These include students, workers, teachers, doctors, engineers,  university professors and lawyers.”</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7AAbBTqsxCLrxMfCWWV1dCF1oSry7zGj7%2b5ykic4obXViv5jDqRqi0EVH0lK8MbNLaOTuFn%2b3wXV0T8FUeZQxFiSQXmhtZw5u0VtxMosDPQA%3d">UK officer: Britain involved in the torture of detainees in PA jails in W. Bank</a>.</p>
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