New York Times · 27 May 1997
CP-1997-013
Palestinian Rights Monitor Charges Torture of Prisoners
Serge Schmemann
Transcribed from the clipping
“A large number of detainees also reported being subjected to ‘shabeh,’ a punishment reportedly commonly used by Israeli interrogators, which involves tying the prisoner for long stretches in an excruciating position.”
Context added by this archive
The only clipping in the archive that names shabeh. The monitor is Bassem Eid, and the detainees he is reporting on were held by the Palestinian Authority as well as by Israel: of the cases he studied, all began with beatings and twenty-six involved beatings with weapons or batons. His news conference coincided with a Palestinian death in Palestinian custody.
Cite this item
"Palestinian Rights Monitor Charges Torture of Prisoners," New York Times, 27 May 1997. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1997-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1997-013
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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