Israeli forces seriously abused Palestinian detainees, US report says

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US State Department says Israeli government generally respected human rights of its citizens in 2006, but mentions ‘serious abuses by some members of the security forces against Palestinian detainees’; report says ongoing genocide in Sudan's Darfur region was world's worst human rights abuse last year.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3373287,00.html

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"The Israeli government generally respected the human rights of its citizens in 2006, a US State Department report published Tuesday said.

However, according to the department’s annual survey of human rights practices, there were problems in some areas, including serious abuses by some members of the security forces against Palestinian detainees.

"Poor conditions and improper application of security internment procedures persisted in some detention and interrogation facilities," it said.

The report said institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against Israeli Arabs continued, and non-Orthodox Jews and other religious groups continued to face discrimination in personal and civil status matters.

“The educational systems for Arab and Jewish students remained unequal. Trafficking in and abuse of women and foreign workers remained a problem in some areas and industries although the government passed new anti-trafficking legislation,” the report said.

“De facto discrimination against persons with disabilities occurred, and government corruption and other criminal activity by political leaders was a problem.”