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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Abuse Continues Against Families Visiting Their Detained Loved Ones

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The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that the soldiers continuously try to humiliate the families, and denies them visitations rights when they refuse to be strip-searched, in addition to insulting and attacking them.

The PPS reported that the father of detainee Ashraf Al Mathloum was violently attacked by soldiers manning a roadblock near Ofer Prison after he rejected to be strip-searched...

...soldiers also try to humiliate the women by searching them and their bags without any privacy and by insulting them in addition to trying to force them to be strip-searched.

[If Americans Knew has been told of at least one woman who was raped -- in a particularly grotesque way.]

The families demanded the Red Cross to intervene and stop the Israeli violations and illegal acts against the detainees and their families. Full story