Israeli Group Says Police Beat Jailed Palestine Youths
An Israeli human rights group said today that Palestinian youths held by police for alleged security offenses were housed in overcrowded cells and subjected to routine violence.
B’Tselem, an independent human rights monitoring group, said it found “serious flaws in every aspect of the manner in which the Israeli police handle the detention and interrogation of Palestinian minors.”
The report focused on overcrowding in the Russian Compound police station in the center of Jerusalem.
Representatives of the International Assn. for the Rights of the Child visited the Russian Compound in March and found 39 youths in a cell with 12 beds.
“Almost every minor we interviewed testified that he had been beaten, usually severely--slaps, punches, kicks, hair-pulling, blows with clubs and iron bars--and pushed to the wall and to the floor,” the report said.
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