Detained by Israel: Palestinian Child Prisoners

[Wonder]

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Each year, hundreds of Palestinian children from the Occupied Palestinian Territories are arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned by the Israeli military authorities. Since 1992, Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) has represented many of these children in Israeli military courts, monitored the conditions of their detention, and intervened with relevant institutions and government bodies in order to improve their situation.

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In the period from 1998 to 2000, there was a 183% increase in the number of cases received by DCI/PS (89 in 1998 to 252 in 2000). In addition, there was a serious increase in the number of children arrested between the ages of 13 and 14. In 1999, arrested children aged 13 and 14 represented 9.90% of all DCI/PS cases. In the year 2000, that figure increased to 21.83%.

Moreover, there is a marked increase in the length of sentences received by Palestinian children. In 1999, the majority of cases (43.51%) received sentences of less than one month, with 30.53% receiving between 1 to 6 months. In 2000, however, the percentage of cases receiving less than one month decreased to 35.48%, while the number receiving between six months to one year increased from 19.08% to 40.3%, thus constituting the majority.

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The fiction of justice is maintained through bureaucratic procedures, judges, trials, signed documents and confessions. But when confessions are extracted through torture, and when documents are signed but written in a language the signatory does not understand, the emptiness of this framework is manifest. When the bureaucratic procedures serve only to emphasize to the one being shunted through them that they are subject to the caprice and power of the state and its functionaries, and when the judges do not even pretend to be even-handed or offer objective consideration of cases before them, this farce of justice is written--from the beginning-- as tragedy.

more...

http://www.wrmea.com/html/palestinian_child_prisoners_in_israel.htm

[Wonder]

1. Palestinian child arrest figures top 2,000 in 2nd Intifada

article from June 2003

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An estimated 2,000 Palestinian children will have undergone the trauma of arrest by Israeli military forces over the course of the second Intifada from September 2000 to end-June 2003*. The high number of arrests reflects the ongoing Israeli crackdown in Palestinian areas which began during the invasions of March-April 2003, and the use of repressive tactics against the civilian population, even minors.

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The majority of minors are released after 18 days, according to military order 1500 which enables the Israeli army to hold a Palestinian child or adult, without charges or trial for up to 18 days.

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However, some children are taken through a military judicial process and imprisoned in Israeli military detention centres, camps or regular Israeli prisons (under -16's and girls) for political charges. There are between 330-350 child prisoners currently held in the Israeli detention system. These numbers are estimates, since the Israeli government doesn't give the necessary information on Palestinian detainees to attorneys.

more...

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Special%20Section/prisoners%20and%20detension/child_arrest_top_2,000.htm

Okay that is the extent of my searching on children and women prisoners.

women in prison articles are here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=4876&mesg_id=4876#5058

ON EDIT ADDING ANOTHER LINK:
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Special%20Section/prisoners%20and%20detension/archives.htm

[vierundzwanzig]

2. No surprise at all

it takes a certain attitude of denying others the right of equality to uphold Apartheid. The ones easily violated are an easy target.

Sad, but a part of a supremacist attitude.

[drdon326]

3. hmmmm....

do they look like this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030804/241/4voc0.html

or perhaps this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030802/170/4v6vq.html

or perhaps this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030730/170/4u5o9.html&e=11&ncid=708

or perhaps this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030729/241/4tr1l.html

or this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030725/168/4sj6q.html

[Wonder]

4. I believe on this we will be in complete agreement

When it comes to various "Legalities", national and state laws have favored the Israeli General's aims, as well as Israeli's, almost entirely. International law? That's where it gets a little tricky.

[StandWatie]

5. probably not, but..

even if they were, children tried by a military court under martial law would sort of explain why they are cranky in the first place.