Geneva conference on Palestinian prisoners' rights hears shocking testimonies http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m75863&hd=&size=1&l=e

More than 70,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel since 1967, representing over 20 percent of the whole population living under Israeli occupation. This was one of many shocking statistics and testimonies presented at the First International Conference on the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees held in Geneva on 11-12 March. An array of speakers, including parliamentarians from Switzerland, Greece and Britain, highlighted the human rights abuses perpetrated by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as inside Israel itself...