Israel cuts electricity to the Negev desert prison as temperatures soar

[ensho]

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1697319


The prisoners have made a plea for help, calling on all conscientious people the world over to save them from the high temperatures and the slow death programme that the Prison Service is adopting against them under the official supervision of the Israeli government.
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[sabbat hunter]

1. Is there any independent verification of this

actually happening?

Everything I am seeing about this is pointing to a group called Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights complaining about this. However I do not see anything about this group, except it being named in the article which is being passed around various anti-israel sites.

[King_David]

2. Sounds suspect (the story) nt

[pelsar]

3. we need the organs.....

since it was discovered that we were harvesting Palestinians organs as part of our "medical economy" (swedish newspaper) we decided to copy the chinese version, which is use prisoners. We've discovered that the slow death method, helps the organs last longer out of the body, hence we can transfer them to organ needy tibet monks or eskimos.....which have a higher profit margin and we save on electrical costs as well...

everyone wins

[shira]

4. Aww, I was looking forward to their blood in matza! Use the organs but save some blood! n/t

[Violet_Crumble]

5. 'When did Arpeio move to Israel?'

That was the only comment in the comments section, and Arpeio was the first thing I thought of when I read the title of the OP...

[shira]

6. More about MEMO, the source of the story in the OP...

MEMO re-publishes anti-Semite, and Amnesty STILL has no problem hosting the event
http://justjournalism.com/opeds-features/memo-re-publishes-anti-semite-and-amnesty-still-has-no-problem-hosting-the-event/

Shortly after I exposed Middle East Monitor Online (MEMO) columnist Khalid Amaryeh for calling someone a “kike”, and asked whether this disqualified the group from being hosted at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre – at an event which is set to take place tonight – MEMO issued the following clarification on its website:

MEMO wishes to make it absolutely clear that the organisation and its staff are against racism in any and all of its forms, wherever and whenever it occurs; we will not tolerate racism in any articles, reports or comment pieces published by MEMO.

Which is good of them. Except that, less than 48 hours later, Amaryeh was back on MEMO’s website with another comment piece, this one on the need for renewed pan-Arabism, accompanied by a smart new photo of him tricked out like his hero, King Faisal.

For a man who otherwise whiles away the hours hurling racial slurs on the Internet, Amaryeh makes the editorial rounds impressively. Shortly after the “kike” episode, he published this ode to Israel’s non-existenceon the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades website (that would be the “armed wing” of Hamas).

Question: how is a magazine against “racism in any and all of its forms” still publishing a man such as this? And doesn’t this pose a problem for Amnesty, which explains quite clearly on its website: “Please note that our facilities are only available to non-commercial organisations working on human rights or social justice issues”?

One of tonight’s speakers is Adel Bari Atwan, who says he’ll “dance in Trafalgar Square” when Iranian missiles rain down on Israel.

I spoke to Neil Durkin, an Amnesty representative, who told me on May 12 that the NGO was “reviewing” the MEMO event after some troubling questions were raised by my previous blog posts and some follow-up media coverage. He affirmed that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, MEMO’s co-host, had “apologised for communication problems”.

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[LeftishBrit]

7. Like others, I'd need independent evidence

I would expect something so serious to be also reported by for example B'Tselem or the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and I don't find anything about it on their sites.