Khaled el-Masri, unjustly imprisoned and tortured by American CIA

The video above provides a background on the case and a personal account from the victim of false imprisonment and abduction. This crime has been ceaselessly ignored by the American government. The government has been denying any culpability of the incident and refusing to hear the case, but that time has ended.

This morning, the cover-up ended. The European Court of Human Rights held that Mr. Masri’s forcible disappearance, kidnapping and covert transfer without legal process to United States custody nine years ago violated the most basic guarantees of human decency. Notably, the court found that the treatment suffered by Mr. Masri in 2003 “at the hands of the special C.I.A. rendition team,” at an airport in Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, “amounted to torture.”

Mistreatment of Palestinian Children by Israelis

“A belief that every Palestinian child is a potential terrorist may be leading to a “spiral of injustice” and breaches of international law in Israel‘s treatment of child detainees in military custody…”

Israeli soldiers stand guard over Palestinian children arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA

 

This article by The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood describes horrors that Palestinian children are facing at the hands of Israelis. They suffer psychologically and physically from the treatment they receive. The article was written in June, but the issues prevail today. Article link embedded in photo.