New York Times · 2 August 1977

CP-1977-026

U.S. LAWYERS SAY ISRAEL TORTURES ARAB PRISONERS

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“Israeli security agents frequently use torture to extract confessions from Arab prisoners from the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, a group of American lawyers who toured the area said.”

Context added by this archive

Americans this time, and lawyers, who went and looked. Printed beside the day’s United Nations schedule, in which the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination meets at half past ten.

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"U.S. LAWYERS SAY ISRAEL TORTURES ARAB PRISONERS," New York Times, 2 August 1977. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1977-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1977-026

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