Amnesty on Egypt, Syria, and Israel………..
“In Egypt and Syria, the authorities maintained decades-long states of emergency which equipped their security police with exceptional powers to arrest and detain suspects, to hold them incommunicado and under conditions which facilitated torture and other ill-treatment and abuse. Israel continued to operate a system of military law over the Palestinians in the West Bank, while Palestinians in Gaza were subjected to Israeli laws that afforded them even fewer rights. Throughout the region, governments allowed their security forces exceptional licence in the name of upholding state security and defending against threats to the public, although often such forces were used to pursue partisan political interests and to maintain monopolies on power in the face of calls for greater openness, free elections and political change…..” Amnesty International
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