The World - News from July 20, 1987
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Palestinian teen-agers are routinely beaten and subjected to mental and physical harassment during interrogation in Israeli prisons, a report compiled by a Christian clergyman alleges. The unpublished study by Canon Riah Abu Assal of Nazareth’s Episcopal Church and three American researchers says physical abuse begins as soon as the teen-agers are picked up on suspicion of taking part in anti-Israeli demonstrations or throwing stones. All are denied due process of law, the report adds.
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