Over the past two years widespread human rights abuses have taken place in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority including large-scale arbitrary arrests, prolonged detention without charge or trial of hundreds of political detainees and the increasingly widespread use of...
Mahmud Jumayel, aged 26, died on 31 July 1996 in Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. He had been admitted following severe torture over a three-hour period on 27 July by members of the Naval Police in Jneid Prison, Nablus, West Bank. It is believed he had been hung upside down by the ankles and beaten...
1. Area under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian authority: Death in custody. 2. Syria: Syrian political prisoners freed. 3. Sudan: Peace talks must guarantee human rights into any agreement.