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Ramallah – Ma’an – The UN has sent an official request to Israel to admit the existence of secret prison camp 1391, dubbed in the press “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay,” according to the Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs.Minister Issa Qaraqe told a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday that the UN had asked the Israeli government in a letter to officially acknowledge that the facility.
Human rights experts with the United Nations Committee Against Torture questioned Israeli officials about the facility in may when the country came up for a regular review under a treaty obligation, Reuters reported.
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PA: UN wants Israel to admit secret prison
Ma’an News Agency, Nov 22, 2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – The UN has sent an official request to Israel to admit the existence of secret prison camp 1391, dubbed in the press “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay,” according to the Palestinian Authority minister of prisoners affairs.Minister Issa Qaraqe told a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday that the UN had asked the Israeli government in a letter to officially acknowledge that the facility.
Human rights experts with the United Nations Committee Against Torture questioned Israeli officials about the facility in may when the country came up for a regular review under a treaty obligation, Reuters reported.
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Tags: abuse of prisoners, Israel, Palestinian prisoners, secret prison camp 1391, United Nations Committee Against Torture
This entry was posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:26 pm and is filed under Commentary, crime, Palestine, Uncategorized, Zionist Israel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.