Head of the Hamas regime, Ismail Haniyeh, speaking in Tehran during February 2012 in front of portraits of deceased Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei |
In its brief summary, entitled "Human Rights Watch reports on ‘severe’ Hamas abuse of Palestinians" [Associated Press, September 3, 2012], AP says that "Hamas’ security forces in Gaza are committing severe abuses, including torture of detainees, arrests without warrants, forced confessions, unfair trials and mock executions". Egypt's Al-Ahram expands the list of Hamas abuses, adding
- arbitrary arrests, and failure to inform relatives of the whereabouts of detainees
- arrest, abuse and torture of lawyers
- military courts are used to try civilians
- several prisoners were put to death after military trial verdicts though there was "credible evidence they had been tortured".
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