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Jaradat's lawyer, Kamil Sabbagh, said "he was forced to sit for long periods during interrogation, complained of back pain, and seemed terrified of returning to the Shin Bet detention centre where he was being held."
Derek Summerfield's an honorary senior University of London Institute of Psychiatry lecturer. He campaigns against Israeli physicians' human rights violations. He wants information on their involvement. He told The Lancet:
"By Israel's own admission, Jaradat was seen by Israeli doctors 2 days earlier, and they found him in good health. The key medical ethical question is what were these doctors examining him for, if not to assess whether he could withstand torture.""This is precisely what the campaign regarding medical collusion with torture in Israel was launched for in 2009, and it continues to run."
IMA and human rights groups want prisoner health responsibility removed from Israel's Prison Service. They want an independent authority in charge. They want suspicions and clear evidence of torture reported.
IMA Ethics Board head, Avinoam Reches, said "(it's) true that every doctor has a conflict of interest between the patient and the system in the HMOs and also in the army.""But in the case of the IPS, the problem is severe because the treatment is given to people who have no freedom of choice whatsoever."
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), Adalah, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI), and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, express outrage over Jaradat's death.
Postmortem evidence showed severe upper back bruising, deep spine bruising, and similar abuse on both sides of his chest, arms and mouth. He was brutally beaten to death.
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