Palestinian lawyer Iyad Abu Sneineh from Jerusalem speaks to Tel Aviv Tribune Net about his detention experience, which lasted 11 months and included cruel torture and deprivation of dignity, which contradicts the most basic rights that must be provided to prisoners.
Abu Sneina says that his arrest took place in the Bab al-Amoud area in Jerusalem, and came against the backdrop of a snitch presented by a settler to the Israeli police.
He referred to a “farcical trial” at the end of which charges were fabricated against him related to his activities when he was a student at the university years ago.
The lawyer narrates what he and the rest of the prisoners went through in terms of psychological and physical torture in the occupation prisons, including beatings, stripping, rape, rape attempts, starvation, and deprivation of clothing and human and legal rights.
He says that the goal of everything that is happening is to break the prisoners’ resolve and undermine their dignity, “but despite that, they enjoy high morale due to the importance of the message they carry and the justice of the cause they defend.”
