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The case of Suha Jbara exposes the corruption and barbarism of the Palestinian Authority
On 9 December, Suha Jbara, a Palestinian woman with American and Panamanian citizenship, appeared in court in the West Bank for the eleventh time. As with every other previous court appearance, the hearing was postponed, this time until January 2020. Jbara keeps going back to court because, in the middle of the night on 3 November 2018, around 40 armed men burst into her house shoving their guns in her face and that of her mother and her three young children
During her ten weeks of detention, Jbara was physically tortured, denied legal advice and the chance to speak to her family. She was also forced to sign a confession. With no end in sight to her ordeal, she went on hunger strike for 26 days, ending it only when she was taken to hospital. She was finally released on bail in January 2019, and since then has had to deal with a farcical court system that allows prosecutors to ask to be given time to produce evidence an entire year after an arrest - and after her trial has started.
Sadly, Jbara’s case is just one of many examples of arbitrary detention and torture under the PA. During her detention, she described how she saw other prisoners - including many teenagers - who were blindfolded, handcuffed, and forced to sit in stress positions facing the wall as cold water was poured on their faces. Too many Palestinians endure inhumane treatment at the hands of the PA. Life on the West Bank can be hard enough and, civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face a near-systematic campaign of human rights abuses.
The case of Suha Jbara exposes the corruption and barbarism of the Palestinian Authority ǀ View | Euronews
On 9 December, Suha Jbara, a Palestinian woman with American and Panamanian citizenship, appeared in court in the West Bank for the eleventh time. As with every other previous court appearance, the hearing was postponed, this time until January 2020. Jbara keeps going back to court because, in the middle of the night on 3 November 2018, around 40 armed men burst into her house shoving their guns in her face and that of her mother and her three young children
During her ten weeks of detention, Jbara was physically tortured, denied legal advice and the chance to speak to her family. She was also forced to sign a confession. With no end in sight to her ordeal, she went on hunger strike for 26 days, ending it only when she was taken to hospital. She was finally released on bail in January 2019, and since then has had to deal with a farcical court system that allows prosecutors to ask to be given time to produce evidence an entire year after an arrest - and after her trial has started.
Sadly, Jbara’s case is just one of many examples of arbitrary detention and torture under the PA. During her detention, she described how she saw other prisoners - including many teenagers - who were blindfolded, handcuffed, and forced to sit in stress positions facing the wall as cold water was poured on their faces. Too many Palestinians endure inhumane treatment at the hands of the PA. Life on the West Bank can be hard enough and, civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face a near-systematic campaign of human rights abuses.
The case of Suha Jbara exposes the corruption and barbarism of the Palestinian Authority ǀ View | Euronews