276:(CAT) questioned Israeli officials about the facility and expressed skepticism about this claim. The CAT stated that "Israeli security secretly detains and interrogates prisoners in an unknown location called 'Camp 1391' without granting access to the committee, the International Red Cross (ICRC), or the lawyers or relatives of the prisoners", questioned why interrogations at Camp 1391 were not recorded, and stated that "600 complaints of alleged ill-treatment or torture were brought between 2001 and 2006, but none had been followed up".
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solitary confinement. Some of the cells did not have adequate toilet facilities and the guards controlled the running water. A former inmate described to al-Araby al-Jadeed his mistreatment in 1391 after being transferred from
Huwarra military camp, including extended isolation from other inmates, suffocation during sleep, interrogation period extending beyond 24 hours and extreme lack of food.
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by the CAT to examine the facility have been rejected. The
Israeli Supreme Court also refused to allow an inquiry of the alleged abuses, declaring that Israeli authorities had acted reasonably in not conducting investigations into allegations of torture, ill-treatment and poor detention conditions of
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militants against the
British occupation were interrogated. One building, "Meretz", did not appear on any modern Israeli maps and was not mentioned in any Israeli security literature. In 2004, Kroizer published an article in an academic journal, mentioning the prison location in a footnote. Some days
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According to accounts of former captives, the detainees were led into the facility blindfolded, and kept in cells (most are 2 m Ă— 2 m) with no natural light. Two smaller cells (1.25 m Ă— 1.25 m) with heavy steel doors and black or red walls, and almost no light, were used for
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While prisoner information cannot be obtained, " prisoners' rights committee in
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in northern Israel and less than an hour's drive from Tel Aviv. According to the Middle East
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detainees. The CAT responded to this by asserting that secret detention centers are
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