World IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Journalist Alleges Mistreatment in Jail
A prominent Palestinian journalist accused Israeli interrogators of keeping him in a tiny cell for 11 days--four of them without food--during three weeks of detention without charge. Taher Shriteh, wearing a brown prison uniform, held back tears as he spoke to reporters in a military court beside Gaza Central Prison. His request for bail was denied by an Israeli judge. Shriteh, 30, a part-time correspondent for Reuters in the occupied Gaza Strip, is accused of aiding Hamas, a banned Islamic fundamentalist group fighting in a 38-month-old Palestinian uprising.
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