Posts Tagged ‘Palestinian CHILD PRISONERS’
CHILD PRISONERS –
- As of April 2012, there were 220 Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons.
- Since September 2000, Israel has arrested and imprisoned more than 7000 Palestinian children.
An Israeli soldier tortured a child and took a selfie before killing the Palestinian.
- Like all Palestinians from the occupied territories, Palestinian children are subject to Israeli military tribunals.
- Palestinian minors are frequently arrested in the middle of the night by Israeli soldiers, taken away without their parents and harshly interrogated without a guardian or lawyer present.
- According to a recent report by the Israeli NGO No Legal Frontiers, which followed the cases of 71 Palestinian children as they made their way through the Israeli military court system:
- The most common offense was throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. In most cases the object was not actually thrown, did not hit a target, or cause any damage. In no case was serious harm caused.
- In 94% of cases the children were held in pre-trial detention and not released on bail.
- In 100% of cases, the children were convicted of an offense.
- 87% of them were subjected to some form of physical violence while in custody.
- Under pressure from human rights organizations and children’s rights advocates, the Israeli army announced in 2011 that it would raise the age that Palestinians are treated as adults from 16 to 18 years of age, however, critics complain that they are still subject to the same unjust and abusive treatment accorded Palestinian adults.
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