[Ppnews] Audio: Crossing the Line focuses on Palestinian political prisoners

[Political Prisoner News]

Audio: Crossing the Line focuses on Palestinian political prisoners

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9109.shtml


Podcast, Crossing the Line, 20 November 2007

There are more than 10,000 
<http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/arrest-and-detention.shtml>Palestinian 
prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails. Amongst them are 750 
<http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/488.shtml>administrative 
detainees who have never been charged or tried for any crime, as well 
as 350 children and 182 women in Israeli prisons. Israel was the only 
country in the world where torture was still lawful before it was 
made illegal by the Israeli high court in 1999. But since the start 
of the second intifada in 2000, it has been reported that torture is 
regularly practiced in Israeli detention centers. Crossing the Line 
host Christopher Brown speaks with advocate, author and law professor 
Lisa Hajjar about the issue of political prisoners.

Next, Brown speaks with ex-political prisoner Jabber Wishah from 
Gaza. Wishah, now the deputy director of the Palestinian Centre for 
Human Rights, spent almost 15 years imprisoned in Israel and talks 
about the treatment and torture he endured during that time.

As always, Crossing the Line begins with "This week in Palestine," a 
service provided by <http://www.imemc.org/>The International Middle 
East Media Center. The program finishes with a segment called, "The 
Occupation's Impact" which lists the names of people killed as a 
result of the occupation.

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Now [MP3 - 18.8 MB, 47:00 min]


<http://ctl.libsyn.com/>Crossing the Line is a weekly podcast 
dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless in occupied Palestine. 
Through investigative news, arts, eyewitness accounts, and music, 
Crossing the Line does its best to present the lives of people on the ground.

Crossing the Line's host, Christopher Brown, is an independent 
journalist currently living in San Francisco. Brown's South African 
roots and desire for social change are the reason for his strong 
solidarity with the Palestinian people. In 1990 Brown was arrested in 
South Africa where he was detained and tortured for nearly two years 
by the South African secret police. Brown also lived and worked in 
the Old City of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.




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