Two Palestinian rights groups claimed after visiting the jailed head of Fatah movement in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouthi, that he is being tortured and ill-treated by Israeli security services.
According to AFP, they called on the international community to intervene in his case. The head of the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), Khader Shkirat, and Hassan Jabareen, head of the Arab rights group Adalah, visited Barghouthi at a jail in central Jerusalem Tuesday.
" Barghouthi's hands and legs are shackled to a small chair, angled to slant forward so that he cannot sit in a stable position," the groups said. "Due to nails sticking out on the chair ... his back is bleeding, they said.
The groups also said that the Fatah leader was being kept in solitary confinement for 20 hours a day, was suffering from sleep deprivation and that his guards had threatened to kill both him and his son, who is being held in a prison in southern Israel. (Albawaba.com)
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