Appendix 1391

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Plant 1391 or Facility 1391 was a secret prison for “high-risk prisoners ” operated by the intelligence service of the Israeli army and meanwhile also used by the domestic secret service Schin Bet . Following complaints from former detainees, the Israeli Supreme Court and later the United Nations Anti-Torture Commission dealt with the secret prison, which became the subject of Israeli and international media reports from 2003. According to official information from 2009, the system has not been in use since 2006.

location

The plant is located in a 1391 Tegart fort on a base of for Human Intelligence ( German  "human intelligence" ) responsible, covert unit 504 of Israeli military intelligence Aman . Most of the Israeli maps do not contain any references; the system has been made unrecognizable on aerial photographs. The base is between the kibbutzim Barkai and Ma'anit, according to the Israeli historian Gad Kroizer, southwest of Kafr-Qara , just under two kilometers from the intersection of the two expressways 65 and 6 . The next larger town is Pardes Hanna-Karkur . In 2004, Kroizer came across a 70-year-old map showing 62 police posts from the British mandate . An item recorded there named Meretz was missing on all modern Israeli maps. In March 2004, Kroizer published an article in an academic journal in which he said that Meretz was an attachment 1391. The editorial staff of the magazine received a call from the military, stating that the article had not been submitted for censorship.

history

During the course of the Israeli occupation in the south of Lebanon (1985-2000), numerous Lebanese kidnapped from Lebanon were interrogated by Aman Unit 504 in facility 1391 and then often held in solitary confinement for several years. Prominent prisoners from 1989 onwards were the spiritual leader of Hezbollah , Abdel Karim Obeid, and from 1994 the former member of the Shiite Amal militia Mustafa Dirani, who, along with 19 other Lebanese , were held hostage by Israel with the intention of attacking the missing air force officer Ron Arad to be exchanged.

At the end of 2002, the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked brought the case of some Palestinians detained in Annex 1391 to the Israeli Supreme Court, which was heard in an initial hearing at the end of 2003. HaMoked demanded the disclosure of the location of the secret prison and asserted in particular that the concealment of the place of detention by a detention facility that cannot be geographically localized violated the resolutions of the UN General Assembly (Resolution 43/173 of 1988) and the Geneva Convention III, and the prisoners therefore already violated them were to be transferred to regular prisons during the trial and then permanently. In January 2004 the court ruled that the facility complied with the law, but obliged the responsible authorities to provide regular information about any prisoners. In addition, the court agreed certain measures to restrict the use of the facility as a prison, which are subject to confidentiality. In August 2004, the Department of Defense reported the detention of two Hezbollah members in Appendix 1391 to the court. In 2005, the government announced that a subsequently released detainee had been detained in Appendix 1391 for over 18 months “under exceptional circumstances”.

Torture allegations

In the 2009 report of the UN Committee against Torture, the UN Committee against Torture asked Israel to ensure that all inmates' complaints about torture , ill-treatment and poor detention conditions at the facility are investigated in an impartial manner, that the results are published and that those responsible are prosecuted. The UN experts accused Israel of detaining Palestinian prisoners in a secret location on Israeli territory and of using interrogation methods there that are not in line with the UN's anti-torture convention, including beatings, sleep deprivation and sitting in painful conditions Positions. The UN committee also expressed concern that, despite several petitions, the Israeli Supreme Court had seen no cause to investigate the site and certified appropriate behavior by the relevant authorities when they refused to answer the allegations of torture, ill-treatment and investigate poor detention conditions. Israel rejected the allegations because they had been investigated and rebutted by the Israeli authorities. In addition, the facility has not been used as a prison since September 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aviv Lavie: Inside Israel's Secret Prison. In: Haaretz from August 20, 2003, accessed on October 2, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Israel says 'secret' detention center is empty. In: Ynet news from May 7, 2009, accessed October 4, 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ SECRETS OF UNIT 1391. In: Newsweek Magazine. June 27, 2004, archived from the original on August 16, 2011 ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Ami Pedahzur: The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Columbia University Press, New York 2009, p. 129
  5. ↑ Chris McGreal: Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison. In: The Guardian of November 14, 2003, accessed October 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/43/a43r173.htm
  7. ↑ Wolfgang S. Heinz, Jan-Michael Arend: International Fight against Terrorism and Human Rights: Developments 2003/2004. (PDF) German Institute for Human Rights, 2nd edition, Berlin 2005, p. 48f.
  8. ↑ Birgitta Elfström, Arne Malmgren: “Facility 1391” - a secret prison (PDF; 231 kB), process observation by the International Commission of Jurists (Swedish Section) from December 15, 2004, Gothenburg February 1, 2005.
  9. ^ Israel court lifts prison secrecy. In: BBC News. December 2, 2003, accessed February 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Congress of the United States of America: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008. Washington DC, April 2008, p. 1993, 1995 (English)
  11. ^ Report of the Committee Against Torture: Forty-first Session (November 3–21, 2008); Forty-second session (April 27– May 15, 2009) (PDF), United Nations Publications, 2009.
  12. ↑ Secret prison: UN investigates allegations of torture against Israel. In: Spiegel Online . May 5, 2009, accessed August 1, 2018 .

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