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Lawmakers demand answers after second 'prisoner x' exposed
Moran Azulay
Published: 09.07.13, 12:50
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1. More questions than answers
Jake B. ,   Cleveland, OH   (07.09.13)
1. How long has the 2nd prisoner-x been incarcerated? 2. How long has he been in solitary confinement? 3. Is he an Israeli citizen? Foreign Nstionsl? Jewish? Oleh/Vatik? 4. Assuming Ben Zygier allegedly committed suicide after 10 months in solitary (most people wouldn't last 10 days before becoming a mental vegetable), why didn't the Prison Authorities immediately change their protocols in light of the failures discovered? 5. What is the suicide rate in Israeli prisons compared with the general public? (the well known entertainer, Dudu Topaz, is just one name that comes to mind regarding prisoners who took their own lives while in solitary confinement). 6. Why was Adolf Eichmann, arguably, the worst perpetrator of crimes against the Jewish nation, entitled to a public trial while Ben Zygier and now prisoner-x-#2 never had their day in court? 7. Are there laws regarding when/if an individual can be 'disappeared'? How can the public be assured the disappearance of these individuals was truly necessary to protect the security of the State and not a personal vendetta by a powerful person or group who might have felt threatened?
2. The Knesset
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.09.13)
In this case it is the MK's job, together with the IPS to get that person out into "normal" security jail restraint. Secret prisoners are the beginning of the end of democracy.
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