The Capital Times · 21 November 2002

CP-2002-046

Palestinian doctor tells of Israeli abuses

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Palestinian doctor tells of Israeli abuses By Kathryn Kingsbury Correspondent for The Capital Times Mamdouh Al-Aker says the worst thing about his 40-day imprisonment by the Israeli government wasn't that he was in solitary confinement in a one-by-two-meter cell. It was that the clothes they gave him smelled like urine.

Al-Aker, a Palestinian doctor and activist from the West Bank city of Ramallah who was imprisoned in 1991, says he never saw papers say- ing what he was being charged with and was never brought to trial. Some Israeli officials initially accused him of associating with terrorists, but they later lifted that claim.

"When you have a country in the situation where such a lot of terrorism is going on, you have to be very, very cautious. And sometimes the people

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"Palestinian doctor tells of Israeli abuses," The Capital Times, 21 November 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-046

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