Uproar: Youth Held by Shin Bet Taken to Hospital

Last Friday, a Jewish minor who has been detained for the last few days by the Shin Bet under special orders preventing him from meeting with legal counsel was suddenly taken from his holding cell to hospital because of a medical emergency.

Shabak investigators notified the family when the move was taking place, but refused to let family members meet with their son and accompany him to hospital.

In response to the news that the youth was returned to the Shabak for more investigation, the family responded: “There are no human rights in Israel. A healthy child is taken in for interrogation. A medical problem results, requiring stopping the interrogation and taking the child for medical care. And then he is taken back to his integrators?? What about human rights? Where’s the red line?”

Attorney Adi Keidar of Honenu sent an urgent query to the Shin Bet demanding that the minor receive the rights due to him by law and allow a person of his own choosing to accompany him to the hospital, since, “The contempt for the rights of suspects being integrated has reached a new level: contempt for their physical state. We view with gravity the fact that although his health has been compromised, the intensive interrogation continues along with the refusal to let the minor meet with his family and legal counsel.”

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