{"id":8653,"date":"2009-06-02T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2009-06-02T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:21:54","slug":"jonathan-cook-how-many-secret-prisons-does-israel-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8653","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Cook: How Many Secret Prisons Does Israel Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jonathan Cook, <em>Counterpunch<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cook05182009.html\">18 May 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nation\u2019s watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as \u201cIsrael\u2019s Guantanamo Bay\u201d, and demanded to know if more such clandestine detention camps are operating.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published on Friday, the Committee Against Torture requested that Israel identify the location of the camp, officially referred to as \u201cFacility 1391\u201d, and allow access to the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Findings from Israeli human rights groups show that the prison has in the past been used to hold Arab and Muslim prisoners, including Palestinians, and that routine torture and physical abuse were carried out by interrogators.<\/p>\n<p>The UN committee\u2019s panel of 10 independent experts also found credible the submissions from Israeli groups that Palestinian detainees are systematically tortured despite the banning of such practices by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cook05182009.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch, 18 May 2009 The United Nation\u2019s watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as \u201cIsrael\u2019s Guantanamo Bay\u201d, and demanded to know if more such clandestine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}