'Cruel and unusual' Israeli punishments

January 23, 2002
Issue 
477
World

Individual

  • Sleep deprivation, often seated in painful positions.

  • Painful handcuffing.

  • Beating, including targeting of genitals.

  • Prolonged incommunicado detention (described by the UN special rapporteur on torture as "itself a practice constituting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".

Collective

  • Destruction of homes.

  • Restriction on freedom of movement between Palestinian towns.

  • Curfews for Palestinians and other restrictions on everyday activities.

From Green Left Weekly, January 23, 2002.
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