Mohammed Omer, The Palestine Telegraph, 26 June 2009
Palestine, June 26, (Agance Global) – June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour.
The respected tour culminated in me and independent American journalist Dahr Jamil sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London – an award given to journalists who expose propaganda that masks egregious human rights abuses. Then, ironically, when I got back home, my human dignity was crushed by the Israeli authorites.
I want to address the denials from Israel and the inaccurate reporting by a few journalists in addition to requesting state of Israel to acknowledge what it did to me, prosecute the members of the Shin Bet responsible for it and put in place procedures that protect other journalists from such treatment.
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