Hebron child ‘wrongly jailed for 5 months on rape charge’

Maan News Agency | Nov 5, 2012 TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — Israel jailed a Palestinian teenager for almost six months on rape charges, even though eyewitnesses and DNA evidence did not link him to the crime, Israeli media reported on Monday. The 16-year-old shepherd from the south Hebron hills, identified only as A., was jailed […]

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Israeli jailers storm Nafha prison, wound 61 prisoners

[ PIC 01/04/2012 – 09:58 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli jailers stormed the desert prison of Nafha on Sunday and wounded 61 Palestinian prisoners, prisoners said in a leaked message. They said that the guards stormed the prison’s various wards and assaulted prisoners. They said that the attack followed the prisoners’ refusal to undergo DNA […]

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Tadamun: Israel jailers force Palestinian prisoners to take DNA tests

[ PIC 26/03/2012 – 10:13 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said the Israeli prison authority known as Shabas started lately to carry out a collective DNA test campaign among Palestinian prisoners in its jails and interrogation centers. Spokesman for Tadamun Ahmed Al-Betawi said that a number of prisoners […]

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Soldiers Attack Detainees. Violate all rights & medical ethnics conducting forced DNA Tests

Sunday March 25, 2012 00:41 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that Palestinian political prisoners in Nafha, Majiddo, Galboa’, and Ramon Israeli prisons, returned their meals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, in protest to forced DNA tests conducted on them by, under gunpoint, the Israeli soldiers. The […]

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Prisoners’ DNA Forcibly Collected

PNN | Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:45 On Wednesday, March 21, the Prisoners’ Center for Studies warned that the Israeli Prison Administration will continue to forcibly take DNA samples from the 450 prisoners in Negev prison. Palestinian prisoners have refused to have these tests or cooperate with the Prison Administration. PNN has been able to […]

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Captive Abbas al-Sayyed refuses to give DNA samples

[ PIC 16/03/2012 – 01:09 PM ] TULKAREM, (PIC)– Abbas al-Sayyed, a detained Hamas leader, refused to give a saliva sample to the Jalbu’ prison administration which is collecting prisoner data to keep in a database, according to a letter he sent to his wife with his lawyer informing her of what happened. He said: […]

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Awarta residents DNA tested in Itamar case

    March 29, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — The deputy mayor of Awarta and two of his brothers were detained along with dozens of others Tuesday morning by Israeli forces entering the northern West Bank village of Awarta, where officials say they are being given DNA tests and questioned. The detentions come as the investigation […]

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