Associazione di Amicizia Italo-Palestinese, 29 agosto 2010

Ynet News.com
06.01.2008

Detenuti in un tribunale militare

Il rapporto di Yesh Din  riscontra che ai detenuti palestinesi nelle udienze dei tribunali militari vengono negati regolari diritti processuali. Secondo il gruppo, quasi il 100 % dei processi termina con una condanna di colpevolezza, l’udienza in media dura 2 minuti. L’esercito: il rapporto è pieno di errori.

Un gruppo israeliano per i diritti umani accusa l’apparato dei tribunali militari di Israele di dar luogo quasi automaticamente a condanne di colpevolezza nel caso di palestinesi della West Bank sospettati.

Un rapporto dell’organizzazione Yesh Din ha scoperto che, nel 2006, più del 99,7% di coloro che erano in stato di accusa erano stati giudicati colpevoli, circa il 95 % dei casi si sono conclusi con un patteggiamento e l’udienza è durata in media appena 2 minuti.

30.08.10

They carried photos of Abbas, but the PA president's office says he had nothing to do with the hundreds of young men who prevented an opposition conference from taking place in Ramallah.

400 young men (according to the conference organizers' estimate ) began shouting and whistling (...).

[T]hugs grabbed cameras, beat the Watan photographer and prevented people from being interviewed (...). The police intervened, voices got louder and a fistfight nearly began. Eventually, everyone dispersed, but the event has been the talk of Ramallah ever since.

An important figure among the conference organizers ran to Abbas' office. "Have you gone mad?" he asked.

Later, spokesmen for the security services and the president's office insisted that they had no idea who the 400 were or who sent them, that they had no connection to the disruptive demonstrators and that they respect freedom of speech. (...)

But conference participants are convinced that those who took over the hall belonged to the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (the Mukhabarat ), along with a few people from the Preventive Security Service. Some recognized faces and recalled names, others had studied with some of the intruders, and some even recognized the commanders. One person identified the group as the newest class of Mukhabarat recruits, who had just finished training.

"I was against the action, but these were the orders I received," one of them whispered to an acquaintance. It was clear they had been instructed not to beat the conference participants.

The conference organizers have no doubts that the order to disrupt the event came from Abbas' office. But Abbas insisted that he has no idea who gave the order. "I don't know which is worse," said one participant, "that he gave the order or that it was given behind his back, by one of his purported well-wishers."

Fatah activists expressed their disgust in private conversations, but the organization did not release an official condemnation, perhaps to avoid strengthening the impression that the one who gave the order to disrupt the conference saw himself as defending Fatah's interests. Similarly, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned what happened in a closed meeting, but preferred not to speak publicly.

"This is the path to a fascist regime," Dr. Al Aker, who is known for his restrained language, reportedly told Fayyad.