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Para
Country
Date
Type
Mandate
Allegations transmitted
to have been initiated.
121.
Israel
20/06/06
JUA
TOR;
VAW;
Ms S. I. S. of Tulkarem, currently detained in
Hasharon Military Prison. On 30 April 2006, Israeli
forces took S. I. S. from the prison in Telmond to
the Mei'r Kfar Hospital for the delivery of her baby.
Her legs and hands were cuffed until the moment
she entered the delivery room where she gave
birth to her first son. Neither the detained husband
and father of the child, nor other relatives were
allowed to attend the birth operation, which was
done by caesarian surgery. She was arrested by
Israeli forces on 23 September 2005 when she
was pregnant. During her arrest, she was
removed from her home, forced to strip naked in
an Israeli military vehicle and put on a white robe.
Following the incident, the soldiers tied her hands
and legs with plastic wires. While in the Maskobia
Interrogation Center, S. I. S. was subjected to
invasive body searches. She was also brutally
beaten during her interrogation. The interrogators,
who knew she was pregnant, also threatened to
beat her to the point of miscarriage. Soldiers
placed her husband in a nearby room in order to
apply psychological pressure. Her cell is humid
and has little ventilation. She said the prison food
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