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| Palestinian-American in PA custody says she was tortured |
| 2018-12-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Detention of Suha Jbara, 31, extended by 15 days on suspicions she funded ’illegal organizations’ and ’worked with the enemy’ A Paleostinian court on Thursday extended the detention of a hunger-striking Paleostinian-American activist who claims she was tortured in captivity. Suha Jbara, 31, a US citizen born in Panama, shuffled into the Jericho courtroom with her head down, appearing ashen and weak. Her father and son reached out to embrace her but were restrained by Paleostinian authorities. The court ordered that Jbara remain in jug 15 more days on suspicions she funded "illegal organizations" and "worked with the enemy." Paleostinian authorities refused to elaborate on the accusations. Jbara insists the only organizations she supports are Islamic charities advocating for Paleostinian prisoners in Israel. When the judge announced her extended detention, her youngest son, Mohammed, erupted into sobs and her father shook his fist, wailing, "Shame on you! I swear this is not justice!" as security officials ushered him out of the courtroom. Jbara started a hunger strike two weeks ago to protest what she says is unjust treatment by Paleostinian authorities. She told her lawyer on Thursday that she will continue striking for her remaining days of detention in hopes of bringing attention to her plight. She told the advocacy organization "He insulted me all the time, used very dirty and violent sexual language, threatened to bring a doctor to look into my virginity and say that I was a whore, and threatened to hurt my family and to take my kids away from me," she said of her Paleostinian interrogator. Jbara said security officers also punched her in the chest and back and threw her against a wall. She told the human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group that she was hospitalized after suffering a seizure upon her arrest, but was dragged from her hospital bed by Paleostinian officers. "I was in bed with tubes in my arms when I clearly remember gunnies came into the room... The gunnies took off the tubes and dragged me out. I was feeling very weak and could barely move or talk... They put me in a minivan and I slept on the floor. I woke up in another place and they said to me, ’Welcome to the Jericho slaughter house,’" she said. Her father, Badran Jbara, said Jbara lived for nearly a decade with her American husband in New Jersey, where she obtained US citizenship and raised her three children. Now divorced, she lives with her family in the West Bank city of Turmas Aya, known for its large population of Paleostinian-Americans. "Every day my daughter Suha is dying," Jbara said. "These people are committing brutal crimes against humanity and against the Paleostinian people." Her lawyer, Mohannad Karajah, called the Paleostinian authorities’ accusations "baseless" and "politically motivated." The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch released a report last month accusing both the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gazoo of using "machineries of repression" to stifle criticism. The investigation reported that that Paleostinian security forces routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests to quash dissent by peaceful activists and political opponents. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 With fellow Muslims like these, who needs Israelis? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-12-08 18:41 |