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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3106)7/1/2003 5:07:57 PM
From: StormRider  Read Replies (4) of 6945
 
ISRAEL ACKNOWLEDGES RUNNING 'SECRET JAIL'
Gavin Rabinowitz, Associated Press, 6/30/03
statesman.com

JERUSALEM - Israel's Shin Bet security agency has held Palestinian prisoners incommunicado for weeks at a time at a secret detention center, The Associated Press has learned. Prisoners say they are blindfolded and kept in black, windowless cells. When they ask where they are, they are told: ``On the moon.''

Israel refuses to say where the center is located or who is being kept there, but hints foreigners are among the prisoners. Human rights groups say a secret detention center would be in violation of international law.

The state's attorney confirmed the existence of the center, known as facility 1391, in a June 9 response to a Supreme Court petition filed by the HaMoked human rights group over missing detainees Bashar and Muhammed Jodallah. But Israel would only say the center was located on a secret army base, arguing that revealing the location would jeopardize national security...
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