Friday, March 13, 2015

Was Rasmea Yousef Odeh allowed a fair defense?

"So I think that the consistency--and in fact the consistency for all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, that they experience torture, that has been documented by our own government--a 1977 report put forth by the U.S. consular in Jerusalem, actually based on testimonies given by Palestinians applying for visas with the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. They gave testimonies to the experience of torture they had had in Israeli jails, and very consistent corroborating experiences of torture that the U.S. government--she wrote, this points to a systematic use of torture against Palestinian prisoners. And the torture that Israeli inflicts on its prisoners for the past four decades has been documented as being consistent with the reports that Rasmea gave." (thanks Amir)