التعذيب النفسي للاسرى في مرحلة التحقيق خلال الانتفاضة الثانية
Date
2012-01-01
Authors
زياد محمود محمد هب الريح
Ziyad Mahmoud Mohammad HabAlreeh
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AL-Quds University
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جامعة القدس
Abstract
The study attempts to discuss the psychological torture of the Palestinian prisoners
in the elementary stage of interrogation, during the Second Palestinian Intifada. The time
limit of the study was during (2000-2009) and a sample of Palestinian prisoners who were
arrested during that period was chosen. Prisoners were met and interviews with them were
conducted in order to know the personal experience of each of them, and the researcher
chose the prisoners' sample from several Palestinian factions with various charges against
them. The study deals with the Palestinian prisoners from both the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. The sample included 101 released prisoners, including three female prisoners .
The results showed, through the theoretical framework of the study and through the
employment of torture techniques, that psychological torture should not be viewed as less
dangerous than physical torture; contrarily, it may have more dangerous effects than the
physical torture, because psychological torture includes both the body and the mind; the
study also aimed to disclose the involvement of Israeli prison administration in using
psychological torture with prisoners. We succeeded to disclose some of the deliberate
tricks applied by Israeli investigation committees .The study focuses on the prisoners'
physical or mental suffering in the Israeli jails, for the Israeli interrogators began to engage
in psychological interrogation for these prisoners
Regarding study justification, Israel has, to an extraordinary extent, employed the
psychological torture against prisoners, and began to reduce the physical torture and
beatings that had prevailed before 1999. Also, Israel claims publicly, in front of the world,
that it abides by the prisoners rights, claiming that prisoners are not subjected to physical
and psychological torture during their interrogation in order to force them to confess to
activities they may or may not have done.
In this study, we've followed the descriptive and historical methods, and chosen the
survey approach by doing a survey on a systematic sample of prisoners. Interviews were
conducted with them to know how investigations are administered by interrogation teams.
The sample was selected to meet the diversity of sentences, reasons of detention and
gender, in addition to recording the ratio of each category in the sample. We've also
interviewed children with ages less than 18 years. We recorded interviews with prisoners
and we discharged these interviews, from which we became cognizant of the methods of
psychological torture against these prisoners.
The importance of the current study lies in the fact that it examined the details of
psychological interrogation techniques and their impacts on the prisoners during the
Second Intifada, and it launched horizons for new scientific research studies, for it is
among the first studies to discuss such matters .
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الدراسات الاقليمية , Regional Studies