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Hamas torturing political prisoners: NGO
[Al Ahram] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has enjuggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and tortured dozens of Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip over the past few weeks on political grounds, a Paleostinian rights group said Wednesday. The Gazoo-based Paleostinian Centre for Human Rights condemned the "arrest campaign launched by the Internal Security Service (of Hamas) against dozens of persons, including members of (the) Fatah (party) and children." It said arrests had been stepped up to coincide with calls for demonstrations against Hamas on the anniversary of the death of Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat. The protests were called by the Tamarrod movement, which is inspired by the Egyptian group of the same name that organised the mass protests attending the army's ouster of president Mohammed Morsi. ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... Morsi hails from the Moslem Brüderbund, an organization with branches across the Middle East whose Paleostinian affiliate is Hamas. Detainees told PCHR "that they were subject to torture, including being hit on hands and feet by a stick, punched all over their bodies, shackled, and forced to stand for long hours." Others were "forced to sign oaths to abide by (the) law, not to assemble for participation in demonstrations, not to be in areas of friction with the police, and not to incite people against the government," the PCHR said. On Monday Hamas forbade commemorations of Arafat, who died in 2004, accusing its West Bank-based rival of trying to organise "only a Fatah ceremony" in Gazoo and excluding the territory's Islamist rulers. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-14 |
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