Rights Group Says Gaza Flotilla Activists Facing Abuse in Israeli Jail
Adalah says the two activists face isolation, bright lights and interrogations as Israel denies abuse and accuses them of security offenses.
- On Sunday, an Israeli court extended the detention of Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avila by two days, who were intercepted aboard a Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla vessel off Greece early Thursday.
- Israeli authorities accused the pair of "assisting the enemy during wartime" and membership in the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad, a group Washington alleges acts "clandestinely acting on behalf of" Hamas.
- Rights group Adalah reported the activists face "severe physical abuse" and death threats, though Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein denied the allegations as "false and baseless" on Sunday.
- As their hunger strike entered its sixth day on Monday, the detainees remain in total isolation with "extremely cold temperatures" and are kept blindfolded whenever moved outside their cells.
- Attorneys for Adalah challenged the state's jurisdiction, arguing against the "unlawful abduction" of the activists in international waters, as the court considers a potential detention extension this Tuesday.
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One NGO claims that the two remaining activists were interrogated for almost eight hours, threatened and exposed to constant intense lighting.
The Israeli NGO Adalah denounced this Monday the "mistreatment" suffered by activists of the "flotilla for Gaza", arrested last week by the Hebrew state. It speaks of "mistreatment".
Rights group says Gaza flotilla activists facing abuse in Israeli jail
Two foreign activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla who have been detained in an Israeli prison are facing psychological abuse, death threats and poor detention conditions, a rights group representing them said on Monday.
The lawyers who visited and represent the detained activists of the Global Flotilla Sumud, the Brazilian Thiago Ávila and the Palestinian-Spanish Abukeshek Saif, denounced on Monday that they are both in solitary confinement and that they are suffering abuse practices by the Israeli authorities. "Both activists are in total isolation. Their cells remain under constant high-intensity lighting 24 hours a day, a well-known practice of the Israeli P…
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