Marwan Barghouti ‘brutally’ assaulted in Israeli prison, rights groups say

The Palestinian person held successful solitary confinement reportedly suffers galore injuries successful the September 9 attack.

Palestinian captive enactment groups person accused Israel of “brutally assaulting” Marwan Barghouti, the astir salient Palestinian detainee successful Israeli custody, leaving him with galore injuries.

In a associated connection connected Monday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said connected Monday that Barghouti was assaulted connected September 9 portion held successful solitary confinement successful Israel’s Megiddo Prison.

As a effect of the assault, Barghouti, called the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela” by his supporters, was near with galore injuries, chiefly to the precocious body, the connection said.

The Fatah politician, who has been successful jailhouse for much than 2 decades, suffered injuries connected the head, ears, ribs, close limb and back, said the statement, which quoted a lawyer who was lone capable to stitchery the accusation aft months of being barred from contacting prisoners.

Barghouti suffered bleeding successful the close ear, which aboriginal turned into an corruption arsenic a effect of aesculapian negligence, according to the statement.

The 64-year-old was reportedly assaulted on with a radical of different Palestinian detainees.

The committee said Palestinians are being held successful “tragic conditions”, particularly implicit the past twelvemonth during the warfare successful Gaza.

Intensified arrests

Israel has stepped up arrests successful the occupied West Bank since it launched an ongoing deadly battle connected the besieged Gaza Strip successful October past year. It has besides intensified its mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners held successful detention.

Prisoner rights groups and the United Nations person shed airy connected the systematic abuse being committed against prisoners held successful Israeli jails, including beatings, hunger, a halt successful visitations and aesculapian negligence.

In its statement, the committee said it perceives the assaults against Barghouti and different salient Palestinian figures successful detention arsenic an effort to “assassinate” them.

Barghouti is highly fashionable among Palestinians with polls suggesting that helium could triumph the Palestinian presidency.

He has been taxable to astatine slightest 2 different erstwhile attacks, the connection said.

Barghouti was a salient person successful the archetypal and 2nd Intifadas (uprisings) and was convicted by an Israeli tribunal connected 5 counts of execution successful 2004, 2 years aft helium was imprisoned.

Israel accused Barghouti of having founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah-aligned conjugation of Palestinian equipped groups, successful the aboriginal 2000s – which helium denied – and indicted him connected 26 charges of execution and attempted execution attributed to the brigades.

He was sentenced by an Israeli tribunal to 5 cumulative beingness sentences, positive 40 years for attempted execution and rank successful a “terrorist” organisation.

Barghouti offered nary defence, refusing to recognise the authorization of the Israeli court.

According to Addameer, a Palestinian rights and captive enactment group, much than 10,000 Palestinians are presently held successful Israeli jails with astatine slightest 3,390 of them held nether administrative detention, a wide criticised signifier successful which they are held without complaint oregon trial.