Prisoners’ rights group Addameer yesterday charged Israeli occupation authorities with subjecting a Palestinian family to “an extensive collective punishment campaign”.
The statement came as an Israeli military court extended for a further nine days the interrogation and detention period of Nasser Shriem, brother-in-law of Ashraf Na’alweh, who is accused by Israeli authorities of having perpetrated a fatal attack on settlers in the northern West Bank.
Today Petah Tikva military court ruled to extend the interrogation and detention period of Nasser Shriem for another 9 days.
Nasser's wife, Fayrouz, was just released on 8 November 2018 after 28 days of interrogation, torture, and ill-treatment.https://t.co/6HMHtaYp2b
— Addameer –الضمير (@Addameer) November 27, 2018
Nasser’s wife, and Ashraf’s sister, Fayrouz Shriem, “was earlier detained and tortured for 28 days by Israeli intelligence officers seeking to find her brother”, Addameer noted.
Fayrouz suffered from ill-treatment in detention which included harassment, humiliation, long interrogation sessions, sleep deprivation, threats, psychological pressure, medical negligence and she was kept in an unfitting environment for women in detention.
#Israel will continue to commit War Crimes by Collective Punishment reminiscent of a Nazi policy@IntlCrimCourt will do nothing#Palestine https://t.co/aF11DlhkBQ
— Surrey Friends of Palestine (@OfSurrey) November 27, 2018
Israeli occupation authorities released Fayrouz on 8 November and detained Nasser on 19 November. According to Addameer, Nasser – a professor at Al-Najah University in Nablus – “has been held at Petah Tikva interrogation center and denied access to a lawyer”.
“An extensive collective punishment campaign by Israeli authorities” targeting the family has “so far included the arrest and detention of Ashraf’s mother father and other brothers, Fayrouz and her husband Nasser, and the threatened demolition of both Ashraf and his parents’ homes.”
Addameer pointed out that, in addition, “the village they live in, as well as neighboring Palestinian towns, have also been subjected to night raids and some of Ashraf’s neighbors and friends have also been arrested and interrogated.”
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
