Tuesday, 25 February 2014
A Palestinian prisoner from Jerusalem who was assaulted by Israeli guards while detained at Beersheba prison died on Tuesday morning.
The Wadi Hilwa Center said that Jihad Taweel, a 47-year-old, went into coma for two weeks when Israeli guards attacked him and other inmates and brutally beat them and sprayed them with pepper gas.
Taweel was arrested for driving a vehicle without a license and sentenced to three months in Beersheba maximum security prison.
A resident of Ras Al-Amud neighborhood in Silwan, Jerusalem, Taweel has five children.
Source: Middle East Monitor.
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9966-palestinian-prisoner-dies-of-torture.
A Palestinian prisoner from Jerusalem who was assaulted by Israeli guards while detained at Beersheba prison died on Tuesday morning.
The Wadi Hilwa Center said that Jihad Taweel, a 47-year-old, went into coma for two weeks when Israeli guards attacked him and other inmates and brutally beat them and sprayed them with pepper gas.
Taweel was arrested for driving a vehicle without a license and sentenced to three months in Beersheba maximum security prison.
A resident of Ras Al-Amud neighborhood in Silwan, Jerusalem, Taweel has five children.
Source: Middle East Monitor.
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/9966-palestinian-prisoner-dies-of-torture.
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