New York Times · 8 February 1979

CP-1979-025

Israel Denies Torture of Arabs

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Transcribed from the clipping

“The Israeli Government emphatically denied today that Arab political prisoners were being…”

Context added by this archive

Printed the day after a Honolulu paper published the State Department cable concluding that torture may be a widespread and even common practice. Both are in this archive, one day apart.

Cite this item

"Israel Denies Torture of Arabs," New York Times, 8 February 1979. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1979-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1979-025

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