Hamas: US trained PA to torture

Hamas said on Monday it had unequivocal information that the investigators of the PA chief Mahmoud Abbas who question and torture its cadres in the West Bank jails were trained by Zio-American officers to practice heinous ways of torture similar to those used in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. 

Hamas explained that reliable reports received from some insiders who closely know what is going on inside Abbas's jails, clearly prove that those investigators were appointed by US generals William Fraser and Keith Dayton and affirm that the latter himself supervises the PA security apparatuses, manages their meetings, makes decisions and issues orders to them.  

The Movement underlined that the assassination crime of Sheikh Majd Al-Barghouthi represents compelling evidence of the size of oppression and torture exercised against Hamas cadres and the other Palestinian resistance factions inside Abbas's jails.

It pointed out that many human rights organizations including the Dhameer foundation and the human rights watch confirmed the occurrence of serious human rights violations in the West Bank jails under news blackout.
 
Hamas hailed the efforts made by the independent investigation commission which was formed to investigate the murder of Sheikh Barghouthi, calling on its members to visit Gaza to be fully informed about the conditions inside Gaza prisons.  
 
It called on media outlets and international and Arab human rights organizations to work on uncovering the reality of crimes committed against detainees in the West Bank jails without bias or fear of any threats issued by the PA security apparatuses.   
 
The Movement also reiterated its calls on Arab and European countries which are still financing and training those "criminal PA security apparatuses" to stop all forms of support for these apparatuses and to shift their attention and support to the Palestinian people in order to enhance their steadfastness in the face of the Israeli occupation and to restore their usurped rights.