Treatment of Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons Continues to Draw Attention from Human Rights Groups (video)
Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons have recently drawn significant media attention to prisoner issues over the past months, including notable poor conditions for Palestinian children within Israeli prisons. Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support and human rights organization, reported that 236 prisoners were put into detention during the month of April 2013. An average of 200 child prisoners are incarcerated monthly, the report also shows. This issue gained significant attention in February of 2013, when a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was released, showing that ill-treatment and in some cases, torture are widespread and systematic within Israeli…
Torture: You Get What You Ask For
I haven’t yet seen the movie Zero Dark Thirty, but I hear it’s very good. The movie has stirred up controversy because it apparently contains scenes showing terrorist suspects being tortured, which has renewed the discussion about whether torture should be used by the United States as a means of getting information in the war against terrorism. For the purpose of this discussion, I’d like to put aside any moral objections and focus on more practical reasons why torture should or should not be considered by the United States, against our enemies. There are some who maintain that the “enhanced…
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