@DrALJONES @palestine
"Twenty-eight Israeli officials appeared in front of a panel of 10 UN experts on torture in Geneva.
The experts asked the Israeli team: “Does Israel have a law against torture?”
The answer from the Israeli delegation was no.
“Does Israel apply the agreements it has signed against torture in Gaza and the West Bank?” the question continued, to which the answer was also no."
#Torture #Israel WarCrimes #Gaza #BDS
Report: The US knew that Israel used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza
"Israeli officials discussed how their soldiers sent Palestinians into tunnels in Gaza that the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives."
"The information was shared with the White House & analysed by the intelligence community" during the Biden administration.
#USPol #Europol #GazaGenocide #Palestine #news #humanShields #USCoPerpetration #IsraeliCrimes @palestine .
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"Twenty-eight Israeli officials appeared in front of a panel of 10 UN experts on torture in Geneva.
The experts asked the Israeli team: “Does Israel have a law against torture?”
The answer from the Israeli delegation was no.
“Does Israel apply the agreements it has signed against torture in Gaza and the West Bank?” the question continued, to which the answer was also no."
#Torture #Israel WarCrimes #Gaza #BDS
…They described routine beatings & humiliations, medical neglect, & severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or the island, according to MJ reporting. “What they did there was #torture us,” one of the men said.
#HRW & #Cristosal found similar evidence of abuse. They concluded that the #Venezuelans sent to #CECOT “were subjected to what amounts to arbitrary detention & enforced disappearance under international human rights law.”
#HRW & #Cristosal also found detainees were subject to “constant beatings & other forms of ill-treatment,” including #SexualViolence. They noted guards withholding #food & #medicine. “Many of these abuses constitute #torture under international human rights #law,” the report says.
The #HumanRights orgs determined the #abuse was the result of “systematic violations,” rather than independent actions by guards & other ofcls at #CECOT.
…They described routine beatings & humiliations, medical neglect, & severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or the island, according to MJ reporting. “What they did there was #torture us,” one of the men said.
#HRW & #Cristosal found similar evidence of abuse. They concluded that the #Venezuelans sent to #CECOT “were subjected to what amounts to arbitrary detention & enforced disappearance under international human rights law.”
Based on the testimonies of 40 men who were detained at #CECOT, as well as interviews with 150 other people—including lawyers & relatives in #Venezuela, #Colombia, & the US—it paints a damning picture of the abuses inflicted at CECOT.
The #Venezuelans were released in July and returned to their country of origin as part of a prisoner swap deal. Shortly after their release, 3 of the men told MJ that they faced severe #abuse.
#Trump #law #immigration #Rendition #HumanRights #DueProcess #torture
Today in Labor History July 15, 1954: Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco amended their vagrancy law to include LGBTQ people, including punishments of hard labor and detention in concentration camps, where they were routinely subjected to sexual violence. The majority of detainees were working-class gay men and trans women. It was not uncommon to hear upper class and aristocratic gays and lesbians refer to the dictatorship as a “great” historical period. Indeed, Salvador Dali continued to fawn over the fascist dictator until his death, in spite of the fact that Franco executed Dali’s own lover, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, in the 1930s. And Andre Breton kicked Dali out of the Paris Surrealist Group for his fascist leanings.
Fascism continued in Spain up until Franco’s death, in 1975. Today, however, both Barcelona and Madrid are often described as among the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the world. In 2005, Spain became one of the first countries in the world to legalize gay marriage. And Madrid’s Pride event is one of the largest in Europe, in spite of the fact that the city remains one of the most politically conservative regions of Spain.
You can see the trailer for Las noches de Tefía, about the concentration camp in the Canary Islands, that Franco used for LGBTQ prisoners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nk7ikWdUk
#workingclass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #fascism #spain #dictatorship #franco #torture #prison #concentrationcamps #dali #lorca #madrid #barcelona #homophobia #transphobia
IDF Order Reveals Palestinian Gang-Raped by Soldiers at Sde Teiman Was Civilian, Not ‘Nukhba Fighter’ but an innocent civilian.
A classified Israeli military order shows the man Israeli soldiers brutally raped on camera for 15 minutes was never charged with any crime. And was released during hostage exchange last month.
#Torture #GangRape #HostageExchange #Hostages #IDF #WarCrime #Gaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #palestine #Israel #Genocide #RapeIsNotSelfDefence
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IDF Order Reveals Palestinian Gang-Raped by Soldiers at Sde Teiman Was Civilian, Not ‘Nukhba Fighter’ but an innocent civilian.
A classified Israeli military order shows the man Israeli soldiers brutally raped on camera for 15 minutes was never charged with any crime. And was released during hostage exchange last month.
#Torture #GangRape #HostageExchange #Hostages #IDF #WarCrime #Gaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #palestine #Israel #Genocide #RapeIsNotSelfDefence
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I couldn't continue to read this, but it is important that it is shared as much as possible to highlight yet again that the Israeli government is routinely torturing prisoners.
#Israel #Torture #Prisoners #SdeTeiman
Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
https://theconversation.com/israeli-doctors-reveal-their-conflicted-stories-of-treating-palestinian-prisoners-held-in-notorious-black-site-sde-teiman-264091
Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
“This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.
News has just come in that a Palestinian boy from the West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.
– What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.”
#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #GretaThunberg #GlobalSumudFlottilla #torture #sweden
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
We must sever all ties with #Israel.
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
We must sever all ties with #Israel.
“This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.
News has just come in that a Palestinian boy from the West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.
– What we have been through is only a small, small part of what Palestinians have experienced. On the walls of our prison cells, we saw bullet holes with bloodstains and messages carved into the walls by Palestinian prisoners who had been there before us.”
#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #GretaThunberg #GlobalSumudFlottilla #torture #sweden
New rabbit hole: There's apparently been a full-blown panic among law enforcement and corrections officers about fentanyl exposure for the past 3 or more years. Large numbers of LEOs believe that merely touching fentanyl is fatal. There are multiple online videos of officers touching something confiscated in an arrest and then collapsing. There are reports of dozens of correctional officers being rushed to the ER after reportedly touching fentanyl soaked into envelopes in the mail room--one even died last year (summer 2024).
Meanwhile, there are MDs and substance use experts on record saying that literally cannot happen: nobody even gets a buzz from fentanyl by just touching it, let alone dying. There is now scholarly research documenting the widespread false beliefs about fentanyl in LEO circles, and at least one suggesting that all the incidents represent a "culture bound syndrome" in law enforcement; essentially a mass delusion, which triggers panic attacks and perhaps some hypnosis-like states of consciousness.
I haven't verified this point, yet, but I saw one online document alleging that in none of the alleged single-contact exposure reactions to fentanyl (or amphetamines, which are cited in many other incidents) has there ever been an investigation finding any drugs on the mail items, or finding that the officer's reaction really was from the drug they apparently touched. In almost all cases there is apparently no investigation at all, beyond interviewing the officers about their beliefs of what happened.
Anyway, these incidents are also being used by corrections and LE officers to justify #censorship and #torture of #prisoners.
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/worker-dies-at-california-prison-amid-fentanyl-exposure-concerns-13173
New rabbit hole: There's apparently been a full-blown panic among law enforcement and corrections officers about fentanyl exposure for the past 3 or more years. Large numbers of LEOs believe that merely touching fentanyl is fatal. There are multiple online videos of officers touching something confiscated in an arrest and then collapsing. There are reports of dozens of correctional officers being rushed to the ER after reportedly touching fentanyl soaked into envelopes in the mail room--one even died last year (summer 2024).
Meanwhile, there are MDs and substance use experts on record saying that literally cannot happen: nobody even gets a buzz from fentanyl by just touching it, let alone dying. There is now scholarly research documenting the widespread false beliefs about fentanyl in LEO circles, and at least one suggesting that all the incidents represent a "culture bound syndrome" in law enforcement; essentially a mass delusion, which triggers panic attacks and perhaps some hypnosis-like states of consciousness.
I haven't verified this point, yet, but I saw one online document alleging that in none of the alleged single-contact exposure reactions to fentanyl (or amphetamines, which are cited in many other incidents) has there ever been an investigation finding any drugs on the mail items, or finding that the officer's reaction really was from the drug they apparently touched. In almost all cases there is apparently no investigation at all, beyond interviewing the officers about their beliefs of what happened.
Anyway, these incidents are also being used by corrections and LE officers to justify #censorship and #torture of #prisoners.
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/worker-dies-at-california-prison-amid-fentanyl-exposure-concerns-13173
Russian authorities have subjected civilian detainees in Ukrainian areas it occupies to "widespread" and "systematic" torture that includes sexual violence, according to a U.N. rights office report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/world/politics/un-russian-torture-ukraine-civilians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #un #torture #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
I couldn't continue to read this, but it is important that it is shared as much as possible to highlight yet again that the Israeli government is routinely torturing prisoners.
#Israel #Torture #Prisoners #SdeTeiman
Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
https://theconversation.com/israeli-doctors-reveal-their-conflicted-stories-of-treating-palestinian-prisoners-held-in-notorious-black-site-sde-teiman-264091
Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
United Nations investigators said they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the most senior perpetrators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-systematic-torture-un-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #un #myanmar #humanrights #torture #rape