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Israel-Palestine conflict ‘Happening again’: Guantanamo victims say Israel using ‘US-style’ torture Former prisoners who suffered
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‘Happening again’: Guantanamo victims say Israel using ‘US-style’ torture
Former prisoners who suffered mistreatment in US detention facilities say Israeli abuse of Palestinian detainees follows the same patterns.
A Palestinian woman holds a poster depicting some of the Palestinian detainees rounded up by Israeli forces since October 7, during a protest in support of those held in Israeli prisons on May 30, 2024 in Nablus, the West Bank [Sergey Ponomarev/Getty Images]
By Osama Bin Javaid
Published On 22 Jun 2024
22 Jun 2024
When former Guantanamo detainee Asadullah Haroon looks at pictures of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, the memories of his own abuse and torture in United States detention centres come flooding back.
“This is the worst form of oppression,” he says. “When you are labelled as a terrorist you cannot defend yourself in any way. Without a doubt it’s the same process; they are torturing the people in the same way. I think the Americans have made this and the Israelis are implementing it.”
Haroon, who won his case against the US government for illegal imprisonment in 2021, was held without charge in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba for 16 years following his arrest in 2007. Without a doubt, he says, Palestinians held in Israeli prisons now are enduring similar treatment to that he experienced.
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“It’s like in the first days when I was arrested, I was beaten to an extent that I was standing; I couldn’t sit down or if I was sitting down and beaten up, I couldn’t get up. Same with insomnia and I was assaulted for several days. A lot of the prisoners were bitten by dogs. We were provided very little medical care.
“Physical torture was really bad but the worst was mental torture in different forms. I believe there isn’t much of a difference in the torture of prisoners of Palestine, Guantanamo, Bagram and Abu Ghraib.”
Attacked by dogs and deprived of water
Some 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli jails since Israel launched its deadly war on Gaza in October last year, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Gaza. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Palestine says it has been receiving multiple reports of mass detentions, abuse of prisoners and forced disappearances of Palestinians for months, while harrowing testimonies have been provided to aid agencies or posted to social media by Palestinians who have been released from detention.
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In late April, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, published details of the abuse of Palestinian prisoners who had been jailed without trial.
Its report included descriptions of regular beatings, prisoners being attacked by dogs, being forced to kiss the Israeli flag, being forced to curse the Prophet Muhammad, being deprived of water (including for a toilet in a cell shared by 10 inmates), the electricity being cut, insufficient food and being stripped naked.
One prisoner’s account reads: “A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of AH and other prisoners.”
A Palestinian detainee shows injuries to his hands after being released by the Israeli army into Gaza on June 20, 2024. The man had been detained during an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians who were released east of the city in the central Gaza Strip were seen to be weakened and had scars on their bodies [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images]
Much of the abuse carried out in Israeli prisons has been filmed by the soldiers carrying it out. It has strong echoes of the treatment of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners in US detention centres such as the notorious Abu Ghraib prison – where US soldiers photographed themselves alongside prisoners in humiliating positions in 2003.
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and other human rights organisations have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on torture for urgent action to end “the systematic abuse, torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities”.
That submission by Adalah, HaMoked, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and PCATI describes a “brutal escalation”, characterised by what appears to be systemic violence, torture and ill-treatment against Palestinians in Israeli custody in seven different prisons and detention facilities since the start of the war in October.
Lawyers and activists say the Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners bears all the hallmarks of “US-style” abuse and torture.
“Unfortunately over the past 20 years the US has given the world a very bad example of how prisoners should be treated,” says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who was one of the first lawyers to be granted access to detainees in Guantanamo Bay more than 20 years ago and has represented clients, including Haroon, who have eventually won their freedom from the prison.
“Whether it is ISIS (ISIL) copying the orange uniforms, or other countries, including Israel according to the UN, using abusive interrogation methods, all this can be traced back to the sordid example of Guantanamo Bay and the other secret US prisons,” Stafford Smith says. “It is well past time that the US admitted our dreadful mistakes, and insisted once more that both the US and the rest of the world behave in a civilised manner.”
Held without charge
Of 9,500 political prisoners, more than 3,500 Palestinians are being held without charge in Israeli prisons. While thousands were already in prison before the war on Gaza began in October last year, many more have been arrested or rearrested since then.
Those detained without charge can be held indefinitely by the Israeli military for renewable periods, based on “secret evidence” that neither the detainees nor their lawyers are permitted to see. Activists and human rights lawyers consider these people to be hostages with no legal recourse.
Others who have experienced similar detentions, torture and abuse at the hands of US-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan agree with them.
Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, was also held at the notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan. He believes Israeli forces are using similar methods of abuse and torture against Palestinian prisoners to what he experienced in US detention centres [Michelle Shephard/Toronto Star via Getty Images]
Moazzam Begg is a human rights advocate who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for three years without charge. He also draws parallels with what Israelis call administrative detention under which Palestinians can be rounded up and denied legal rights.
“There’s an evident parallel between Gaza and Guantanamo and the war on terror,” Begg says. “What you see from the treatment, from the stripping naked of the prisoners to the mistreatment of them, to the abuse of the religious and racial attributes. There’s absolutely a parallel. It’s undeniable.”
Begg says what happened to him two decades ago, first in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison and then in Guantanamo, is still happening. “I’ve returned to Afghanistan several times. I’ve been back into the Bagram detention facility where I was stripped naked, where I was beaten. I was tied to other prisoners. I watched the abuse of other prisoners. I watched the murder of other prisoners by American soldiers.
“And those American soldiers went on to do what they did from here, almost as a textbook copy in Abu Ghraib [the notorious prison in Iraq where US soldiers abused detainees in 2003 and 2004], what was done to us in Guantanamo. Again, the stripping, the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”
Rights groups are demanding an urgent international investigation to hold the perpetrators of torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons accountable.
Human rights group Euro-Med Monitor, which has documented the testimonies of former Palestinian prisoners, said: “The information gathered leads to the conclusion that the Israeli army routinely and widely commits crimes of arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, willful killing, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual violence, and denial of a fair trial.
“Detainees were also denied access to food and medical care, including critical and life-saving care, were spat and urinated upon, and were subjected to other cruel and degrading acts and psychological abuse, including threats of rape and death, insults, and other forms of sexual violence.”
Despite such calls for justice from rights groups and lawyers, however, Begg says he is not optimistic that things will change in the near future. “There’s no hope. I don’t see any hope in relation to international law, in relation to the United Nations resolutions – multitudes of them have been violated.
“And the same with Israel committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, the targeting of children happening at a time when we claim that human rights laws and international law is across the board.”
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Google to pay $100M a year to Canadian news publishers in deal with Ottawa
Google to pay $100M a year to Canadian news publishers in deal with Ottawa
Ottawa has agreed to set a $100-million yearly cap on payments that Google will be required to make to media companies when the government's controversial online news legislation takes effect at the end of the year.
The announcement Wednesday has the Liberals bending to the tech giant's demands after Google threatened back in February to remove news from its platform.
The Online News Act compels tech giants to enter into compensation agreements with news publishers for content that generates revenue for companies such as Google by appearing on its sites.
Broadcasters and French-language and Indigenous news organizations would join newspapers in being eligible for the deals, with draft regulations suggesting the amount of money would be linked to the number of full-time journalists on staff.
A formula in the government's draft regulations to implement the bill would have seen Google contribute up to $172 million to news organizations. Google balked, saying it was expecting a figure closer to $100 million, based on what it said was a previous estimate from Canadian Heritage officials.
The company appears to have got what it wanted after an extended period of negotiation.
Still, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge called it a “historic development,” insisting Wednesday that the agreement was ultimately a win for the government and for the local news publishers it is seeking to support.
“We have found a path forward to answer Google's questions about the process and the act. Google wanted certainty about the amount of compensation it would have to pay to Canadian news outlets,” she said on Parliament Hill.
“Canada reserves the right to reopen our regulations if there are better agreements struck elsewhere in the world,” she added.
Google's president of global affairs, Kent Walker, thanked the minister for “acknowledging our concerns and deeply engaging in a series of productive meetings about how they might be addressed.”
He said in a statement that the “extensive discussions” addressed the company's “core issues” with the bill.
“While we work with the government through the exemption process based on the regulations that will be published shortly, we will continue sending valuable traffic to Canadian publishers,” Walker said.
The deal will allow Google to comply with the legislation by paying into a single collective bargaining group that will serve as a media fund.
Meta, on the other hand, complied simply by blocking all news content from Canadian users of its largest platforms, Instagram and Facebook. A statement from the company Wednesday suggested that hardline approach hasn't changed.
“Unlike search engines, we do not proactively pull news from the internet to place in our users' feeds and we have long been clear that the only way we can reasonably comply with the Online News Act is by ending news availability for people in Canada.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was satisfied with the agreement with Google and held out hope that Meta would eventually come around.
“Unfortunately, Meta continues to completely abdicate any responsibility towards democratic institutions and even stability,” he said, “but we're going to continue to work positively in those areas.”
Last month, News Media Canada - a lobby group for hundreds of Canadian newspapers and magazines - said it agreed with many of the issues Google raised during the back-and-forth over how the bill would be implemented.
The group said there should be a cap on how much the search giant would have to pay under the law.
But Friends, an advocacy group for Canadian broadcasters, said the deal doesn't deliver the kind of support for journalism that it had been hoping to see.
“We will be looking to the regulations to ensure that smaller, independent, and equity-seeking media groups are assured access to funding,” executive director Marla Boltman said in a statement.
An official with the Canadian Heritage Department said the final regulations for the law, which are due by mid-December, will also address Google's other concern that the law establishes linking to news sites as the basis for payment.
The official said final regulations will clarify that Google's payment is to help news publishers and broadcasters, and not for news links.
CBC and Radio-Canada will also get a portion of the $100 million, but that will be determined once regulations are finalized.
In addition to its financial contribution, Canadian Heritage said Google will continue to make programs available for Canadian news businesses, such as training, tools and resources for business development and support for non-profit journalism projects.
Google said Wednesday that the deal means there will be immediate changes to existing agreements it has with publishers in Canada under its Google News Showcase agreements, which were part of a $1-billion global investment.
The company said it will review its ongoing investments in Canada when the final regulations are published.
Google wouldn't say how much it is already paying publishers under existing contracts, saying such agreements are confidential commercial arrangements.
Companies that fall under the Online News Act must have total global revenue of $1 billion or more in a calendar year, “operate in a search engine or social-media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada” and have 20 million or more Canadian average monthly unique visitors or average monthly active users.
For now, Google and Meta are the only companies that meet those criteria.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 29, 2023.
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The Passing of Alexey Navalny, Putin's Generally Impressive Rival
Alexey Navalny went through essentially 10 years facing the Kremlin when it appeared to be unthinkable. He was imprisoned and delivered. He was harmed, and made due. He was cautioned to avoid Russia and didn't. He was captured before many cameras, with a large number of people watching. In jail, he was disobedient and reliably entertaining. For quite a long time, his prison guards put him in isolation, slice off his admittance to and captured his legal counselors, heaped on many sentences, sent him as far as possible across the world's biggest country to serve out his time in the Cold, nevertheless, when he showed up on record in court, he chuckled at his corrections officers. Many years, he dealt with the could of one of the world's cruelest states and the retribution of one of the world's cruelest men. His commitment was that he would outlast them and lead what he called the Lovely Russia Representing things to come. On Friday, they killed him. He was 47 years of age.
Hours after the fresh insight about his demise broke, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tended to the Munich Security Meeting. "I don't know whether to accept the news, the horrendous news, which we are just getting from state-controlled sources in Russia," she said, from the meeting's primary stage. "As all of you know, for a long time we've been not able to trust Putin and his administration. They generally lie. Yet, assuming it is valid, I need Putin and everybody around him, his companions and his administration, to realize that they will be considered answerable for how they have treated our country, to my family, and to my significant other. The moment of retribution will come very soon."
In Russia, Vladimir Putin was visiting a modern park in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals. He took inquiries from staff and understudies, who were situated a protected separation from the Russian President on what had all the earmarks of being the plant floor. Putin appeared to be in an abnormally positive state of mind. He talked and played with the crowd. He flaunted that Western assents in light of the conflict in Ukraine had supported modern creation inside Russia. He hadn't appeared to be so happy openly in years.
In precisely a month, Russia will hold a custom that it calls a political decision. With no genuine option in contrast to Putin, who has all out control of the media and the supposed appointive establishments, the ongoing Russian President will be delegated for an additional six-year term, stretching out his time in capacity to 31 years. Navalny attempted to go against Putin a long time back, yet the manipulated situation halted him. His very name was ousted from the wireless transmissions. In any case, in any event, when the framework shut him out, and, later, when it put him in jail, Navalny remained Putin's generally imposing rival.
Putin could begrudge Navalny's capacity to assemble Russians. In July, 2013, as the political crackdown that went with the start of Putin's third authority Official term strengthened, a court in the commonplace city of Kirov condemned Navalny to five years in a correctional facility on exaggerated misappropriation charges. That night, a great many individuals gambled with capture by rioting in Moscow in an uncommon unconstrained dissent. The next morning, Navalny was immediately let out of jail, infringing upon laid out lawful system. Putin had for some time been unnerved by mass fights. Presently he must be similarly terrified of Navalny, a man whose very presence appeared to make individuals fit for defeating their own feelings of trepidation.
It's enticing to see Navalny's clear homicide, as a few American examiners have, as an indication of shortcoming with respect to Putin. Yet, a tyrant's capacity to demolish what he fears is a proportion of his hang on power, similar to his capacity to pick an opportunity to strike. Putin gives off an impression of being having a hopeful outlook on his own future. From his perspective, Donald Trump is ready to turn into the following Leader of the U.S. also, to give Putin free rein in Ukraine and then some. Indeed, even before the U.S. Official political race, American guide to Ukraine is slowed down, and Ukraine's Military is famished for troops and approaching a stockpile emergency. Last week, Putin got to address a huge number of Americans by conceding a meeting to Exhaust Carlson. Toward the finish of the meeting, Carlson inquired as to whether he would deliver Evan Gershkovich, a Money Road Diary journalist hung on undercover work charges in Russia. Putin recommended that Gershkovich could be exchanged for "an individual, who out of devoted feelings sold a scoundrel in one of the European capitals." It was a reference to Vadim Krasikov, presumably the main Russian professional killer who has been gotten and sentenced in the West; he is held in Germany. Seven days after the meeting circulated, Russia has shown the world what can befall an individual in a Russian jail. It's additionally huge that Navalny was killed on the principal day of the Munich gathering. In 2007, Putin picked the gathering as his stage for announcing what might turn into his conflict against the West. Presently, with this conflict going full bore, Putin has been avoided from the gathering, yet the activities of his system — the killings committed by his system — rule the procedures.
Russian jail specialists have said that Navalny felt sick subsequent to getting back from his day to day walk, blacked out, and couldn't be resuscitated. They have credited his passing to a pneumonic embolism. Anna Karetnikova, a detainees'- rights dissident and a previous individual from the regular citizen oversight body of Russia's jail framework, has said that jail specialists regularly use embolism as a catchall term. Sergey Nemalevich, a writer with the Russian Help of Radio Freedom, saw that the apparent timing of the demise didn't appear to correspond with Navalny's new depiction of his timetable in isolation: he had said that his day to day walk occurred at six-thirty AM, yet jail specialists guaranteed that, upon the arrival of his passing, he got back to his cell in the early evening. Nemalevich proposed that Navalny was dead some time before a rescue vehicle — which specialists said required a simple seven minutes to make a trip 22 miles to the jail — was called to pronounce him dead.
Navalny, who was taught as a legal counselor, became dynamic in governmental issues in the mid two-thousands and arose as a well known person around 2010. His initial governmental issues were ethno-patriot, on occasion unmistakably xenophobic, and freedom supporter. He supported for weapon freedoms and a crackdown on transients. Yet, he tracked down his plan and his political voice in archiving defilement. He fabricated a development in light of the reason that residents, even in Russia, could and ought to practice command over the way that administration cash is spent. In the following years, he developed from an ethno-patriot to a metro patriot, from a freedom supporter to a social liberal. He learned new dialects, read ceaselessly, and integrated groundbreaking thoughts into his program. He focussed, progressively, on political power as well as on friendly government assistance. During the beyond three years, he utilized the lectern given by an interminable series of trials to air his political perspectives. In a court discourse on February 20, 2021, he framed a dream for a country with a superior medical care framework and a more fair conveyance of riches. He proposed changing the motto of his political development from "Russia will be free" to "Russia will be cheerful." He kept on declaring this confident plan, even as he developed increasingly skinny and even as he had to show up in court on a video screen, isolated from his crowd by glass, a mesh, and great many miles.
Navalny's public voice was brimming with incongruity without being pessimistic. He considered the objectives of his examinations to be crazy men with huge yachts, little inner selves, and incredibly awful taste. He viewed their maltreatments in a serious way by paring them down. This was half of his charm. The other half was his romantic tale. More than whatever else on the planet, it appeared, he needed to intrigue Yulia. Restricted to a block in a court, he put his hands looking like a heart, signaling at her. He sent love notes from jail, which were presented via online entertainment for him. On her birthday last July, he posted,
You know, Yulia, I've made a few efforts to compose the tale of our gathering.
Yet, every time after I compose several sentences, I halted in fear and couldn't continue onward.
I'm frightened that it might have not worked out. Well, it was an occurrence. I might have glanced the alternate way, you might have dismissed. The one second that decided the course of my life, might have ended up being unique. Everything would have been unique.
I most likely would have been the saddest individual on the planet.
How marvelous is it that we took a gander at one another in those days and that now I can shake my head, drive away these considerations, rub my temple, and say, "Golly, what an unusual bad dream."
This appeared to be the main thing that might have frightened him. Perusing his ridiculously famous virtual entertainment accounts wanted to watch a lighthearted comedy, however one that featured a hero.
A year after the Kremlin's endeavor to take care of Navalny fizzled, Putin took a prisoner: Alexey's sibling Oleg was imprisoned on exaggerated accusations. It was an old solid strategy. The associates expected to be that, with Oleg in a correctional facility, Alexey would stop his political exercises to protect his sibling. Be that as it may, the siblings made a settlement to continue onward. Alexey constructed a rambling association that extended a long ways past recording defilement. He ran for city chairman of Moscow. He constructed an organization of political workplaces that might have empowered an Official race assuming such an amazing concept as decisions really existed. He developed disappointed that columnists weren't following his leads or undertaking examinations of their own, thus he established his own media: YouTube shows and Message channels that advanced the consequences of his gathering's examinations. Navalny's work brought forth a whole age of autonomous Russian insightful media, a considerable lot of which keep working in exi
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