Re: Israel: Illegal Arrest and Incommunicado detention of Nabil Al-Raee

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On Jun 7, 4:16 am, William Gomes <williamgomes....@gmail.com> wrote:
> June 7, 2012
>
> Benjamin Netanyahu
>
> Prime Minister of the State of Israel
>
> Office of the Prime Minister
> 3 Kaplan Street, P O Box 187
> Jerusalem 91919, Israel
> Phone: +972-2-6753333
> Fax: +972 2 6521599
> E-mail: pm_...@pmo.gov.il
>
> *Israel: Illegal Arrest and Incommunicado detention of Nabil Al-Raee*
>
> *Dear Benjamin Netanyahu,*
>
> I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem News.com.
>
> I am writing to express my serious concern over the illegal arrest and
> Incommunicado detention of Nabil Al-Raee, the artistic director of the
> Freedom Theatre by the Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin.
>
> According to the information received "The soldiers came around 3:00 am
> (0000 GMT). I live upstairs so I came out to see what was happening,"
> Jonatan Stanczak told AFP.
>
> He found the troupe's artistic director Nabil al-Raee surrounded by Israeli
> forces, who refused to say why they were detaining him.
>
> "The only answer you get is a gun in your face. When I went out I had three
> guns pointing at me, I was half-naked because I didn't want them to think I
> had any weapons," he said.
>
> Nabil's wife, Micaela Miranda explains what happened: "The dog started
> barking so I went outside and saw soldiers jumping over the gate and come
> into the yard of the house. They asked for my husband and I asked what for,
> that it's my right to know and it's my house. The soldiers replied that
> they were not going to tell me. They then took Nabil, brought him to an
> army jeep and drove off. We are very worried because we don't know where
> they took him and why."
>
> This is not an isolated case, more than half the employees of The Freedom
> Theatre were recently called to interrogations by the Israeli army,
> including Nabil Al-Raee. All came to the appointments as scheduled and
> answered to their best of their knowledge the given questions even though
> they were intimidated and even threatened.
>
> The theatre's Israeli-Palestinian director, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was killed
> in April 2011 in the city's refugee camp by an unknown gunman, and since
> then Israeli troops have arrested several members of the theatre, according
> to AFP
>
> I am gravely concerned by the use of incommunicado detention through the
> issuing of Orders Prohibiting Meeting with Counsel by the Israeli
> authorities, as this represents a violation of the detainees' rights under
> international law.
>
> I want to request you the following:
>
> i. take all necessary measures to guarantee the physical and psychological
> integrity of Mr. Nabil Al-Raee
>
> ii. guarantee that he is granted regular and adequate access to legal
> representation and family visits;
>
> iii. order his immediate release in the absence of valid legal charges, and
> if such charges exist, to ensure that he is given a prompt and fair trial,
> in which his procedural rights are guaranteed at all times;
>
> iv. order a thorough and impartial investigation into the circumstances of
> these events, notably the allegations of torture, in order to identify
> those responsible, bring them to trial and apply the penal and/or
> administrative sanctions as provided by law;
>
> v. guarantee the respect of human rights and the fundamental freedoms
> throughout the country in accordance with international human rights
> standards.
>
> I request your urgent intervention.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> William Nicholas Gomes
>
> Human Rights Ambassador for salem News.com
>
> Salem-News.com
> P.O. Box 5238
> Salem, Oregon 97304
>
> www.williamgomes.org
>
> http://www.williamgomes.org/israel-illegal-arrest-and-incommunicado-d...
>
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