🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.
🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.
🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.
🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”
🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.
🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”
Photo: Amnesty International
@equalityAlec Pure Blue Maga BS coming out of this guy's mouth. So arrogant to assume people who voted for her don't agree with her positions. Maybe people do have experience with the criminal legal system and want something else. Did you ever think of that, Favreau??
@CUBuffsMBB@Dwhite921 Going to the Keg and watching so many great players. A memory that stands out is Jason Obazuaye hitting a last second lay up vs. K State. That must have been in 2005 or so.
Stories like today's catastrophic Supreme Court ruling on pesticides go under the radar, but they shape our society and determine our lives. One of the most important things to see about our political system is this: there are concentric circles of undemocratic mechanisms that permit local officials to enact policies that benefit the ruling class but that prevent them from enacting policies that hurt the ruling class.
If a local city wants to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic state government can preempt it. If a state wanted to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic federal government can preempt it. This was actually the goal of a lot of the Obama-era corporate transnational trade agreements, which were trying to replicate this system globally to prevent countries from passing progressive economic, environmental, labor, and social policies. At each higher layer, the wealthiest interests typically have more power and control, and it is much harder for people to organize to effectively fight against that power.
@equalityAlec This group of centrists/progressives is so important to critique as you do. Thank you. They are the group that South Park shows smelling their own farts and thinking they are saving humanity.