Re: Israel court lifts prison secrecy

Defuse, defuse, defuse marvellous way to keep doing what you are doing,
Thats Facility 1391, doesnt affect if there is a new startup Facility 1392.
You paperover, not change the system, clever little fellas arent they?
But they have been at it a long time.

http://jews-for-allah.org/Jews-not-for-Judaism/communism/jewsforcommunism.htm


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> Israel court lifts prison secrecy
>
> BBC News Online
> 2 December 2003
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3255396.stm
>
> Israel's supreme court has ordered the government to release
> information about a secret jail for "high-risk" inmates.
>
> The government only recently admitted the existence of Facility
> 1391, an army detention centre dubbed "Israel's Guantanamo Bay" by
> the Israeli press.
>
> Palestinian prisoners have reportedly been held in disorienting
> conditions and barred from outside contact.
>
> Government lawyers said the location was an army secret, but inmates
> had the right to meet their lawyers elsewhere.
>
> Shai Nitzan, representing the government, said prisoners' rights are
> safeguarded at the facility.
>
> He said that the Red Cross can interview detainees off-site. They
> are not allowed to visit the prison itself.
>
> 'Not in use'
>
> The government says there are currently no prisoners being held at
> the centre.
>
> The detention conditions... are not proper for holding a human being
> Hamoked, Israeli human rights group Mr Nitzan said it was used by
> the Shin Bet internal security service primarily between April 2002
> and March 2003 in order to relieve overcrowding at other jails.
>
> The Israeli human rights group Hamoked, which brought the suit on
> behalf of Palestinian former detainees, says inmates are kept in
> unacceptable conditions.
>
> "The detention conditions... are not proper for holding a human
> being, and are liable to cause physical and psychological injury,
> which may even be irreversible," the organisation said in its court
> submission.
>
> It also argued that keeping Facility 1391's location secret was
> illegal.
>
> The court condemned the prison for reportedly keeping inmates in
> sub-standard conditions, but said prison conditions were not part of
> its ruling.
>
> The court gave the government 45 days to release information about
> the facility.