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| PFLP: Investigate Hamas member's death in PA prison |
| 2009-08-11 |
| Ma'an -- The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called for an independent investigation into the death of a Hamas member in a Palestinian Authority (PA) prison on Monday. The PFLP in a statement called for national and Islamic factions to back the investigation. It also called for an end to politically-motivated arrests and respect for human rights. The statement was in reference to the death of 27-year-old Fadi Hamadneh from the village of Asira Ash-Shamaliyya, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Hamas said his death was the result of torture. According to the PA's security services spokesman, Adnan Demeiri, Hamadneh was found dead after he hung himself with a bed sheet tied around his neck. Dmeiri said officers on the scene took the man's brother-in-law, Shakir Dababsa, to the scene of the alleged suicide to prove that the man's death was not the result of foul play. The spokesman added that security services summoned medics and representatives from the Palestinian Independent Human Rights Commission to examine the circumstances of the man's death, and insisted that they were prepared to bring in an alternative physician requested by the victim's family. However Hamadneh's brother Hani said he doubted the PA's report, insisting that his brother was deeply religious and would have never committed suicide. According to Dmeiri, Hamadneh was detained by the Fatah-backed PA General Intelligence Service on 15 June, and that security forces completed their interrogation on the 25th of that month. Hamarna had been held pending release in a separate cell since then, Dmeiri said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Why? Just proves who (or what) they consider 'human'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-08-11 21:22 |
| #1 The PFLP in a statement called for ... respect for human rights. Speachless. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-08-11 04:59 |