Left-wing blogger questioned by Shin Bet over tweet
Haaretz
By Barak Ravid | May 19, 2014 |
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A left-wing Israeli blogger says a Shin Bet security service official threatened him Monday with losing his job and going to jail because he posted a tweet seeking the identity of three Shin Bet agents, in a follow-up to a blog post about the Israeli interrogation of Palestinian minors.
On May 2, Noam R. posted excerpts from the witness testimony of Palestinian minors who said they were interrogated by the Shin Bet, including an 8-year-old boy who said he asked to use the bathroom and was told to pee in his pants and a 15-year-old who said a Shin Bet official put jumper cables between his legs and threatened to turn on the electricity if he didn’t confess. On Noam’s Hebrew-language blog, Godwin Tzadak, he wrote that he cried that day for the first time since he was 11.
“I cried when I read testimony from the interrogation rooms of the Shin Bet, especially that of children,” he wrote. “I cried when I learned of the existence of room No. 4 in the Russian Compound interrogation facility, where Palestinian children are taken, and where they are interrogated for hours while being humiliated and tortured, psychologically and physically.”
At 6 A.M. the next day, Noam tweeted: “This is the place to mention that if any one of you knows the true identity of Shin Bet coordinators ‘Sabri’ from the Qalqilyah district, ‘Daoud’ from Jerusalem or ‘Abu Yusef’ from Bethlehem, I’m here.”