English Mezan logo
Donate
logo Company
ar EN
English Mezan logo
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Vision and Mission
    • Al Mezan in the Media
    • Contact Us
  • Gaza Genocide
  • Issues
    • Closure and Freedom of Movement
    • Right to Health
    • Use of Force
    • Human Rights Defenders
    • Environment
    • Death Penalty
    • Children
    • Women
    • Obliterated families
  • Publications
    • Press Releases
    • News Briefs
    • Reports and Studies
    • Testimonies
    • Statistics
      • Monthly Statistical Reports
      • Human Casualties
      • Destruction of Residential Houses
      • Damaged Agricultural Lands
  • Advocacy
    • Local Advocacy
    • International Advocacy
      • United Nations
      • European Union and EU Members States
    • Accountability
  • Capacity Building
    • Library
    • Resources
      • International Reports
      • References
      • Brochures and Posters
    • Workshops and Trainings
    • Annual Awards
    • Pass the Word
    • Lawyer Training
  • Get Involved
    • Newsletter
    • Complaints and Suggestions
    • Vacancy
Mezan
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

About Us

  • About Us
  • Vision and Mission
  • في الصحافة
  • Contact Us

Gaza Genocide

Issues

  • Closure and Freedom of Movement
  • Right to Health
  • Use of Force
  • Human Rights Defenders
  • Environment
  • Death Penalty
  • Children
  • Women
  • Obliterated families

Publications

  • Press Releases
  • News Briefs
  • Reports and Studies
  • Testimonies
  • Statistics
  • Monthly Statistical Reports
  • Human Casualties
  • Destruction of Residential Houses
  • Damaged Agricultural Lands

Advocacy

  • Local Advocacy
  • International Advocacy
  • United Nations
  • European Union and EU Members States
  • Accountability

Capacity Building

  • المكتبة
  • مصادر
  • International Reports
  • References
  • Brochures and Posters
  • Workshops and Trainings
  • Annual Awards
  • Pass the Word
  • Lawyer Training

Get Involved

  • نشرة إخبارية
  • شكاوى ومقترحات
  • Vacancy
Post

Al Mezan is an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental human rights organization based in Gaza.

  1. Main page
  2. Press Releases
  3. Police officers assault a man in Gaza, breaking hi......

Press Releases

Police officers assault a man in Gaza, breaking his legs: Al Mezan calls for a thorough criminal investigation

    Share :

26 January 2020 |Reference 2/2020

    Short Link:

  • https://www.mezan.org/public/en/post/45071

Palestinian police officers in Gaza arrested Mohammed Fayez Abu Al-Atta, 31, on 20 January 2020. He was assaulted while in custody and was later admitted to Al-Shifa Hospital with fractures in lower extremities.


Few days before his arrest, Mohamed had been involved in a fight on Friday, 17 January 2020, with a person in Shujaiya neighborhood where Mohamed used a knife and injured the other person, who is believed to had been a plain-clothed police officer of the General Investigations Department. Later that day, at approximately 4:30pm, a police force arrived at Abu Al-Atta's residence, where they detained three of his brothers, his wife, and their two children. They were transferred to Shujaiya police station seemingly to pressure Mohammad to turn himself in. The police released some of Abu Al-Atta family members, including the children, on the evening of the same day, while the rest were released the next morning on 18 January 2020.

 

Information collected from the field and his family testimony indicate that Mohammed was arrested in Middle Gaza district on Monday, 20 January 2020, and was later transferred, at around 7pm, to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where doctors reported that he suffered multiple fractures in lower extremities. It is believed that while in custody of at Shujaiya police station in Gaza City, Mohamed was assaulted by police officers with batons.

 

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is deeply concerned over this brutal treatment of a civilian in custody of the police, and the use of members of his family as bargaining chips. Al Mezan believes that such behavior by police officers, entrusted with protecting and enforcing the law, would undermine the rule of law and increase cases of vigilantism, whereby people take the law into their own hands.

 

Al Mezan calls on the Public Prosecution to promptly investigate the entire incident, including the unlawful treatment of Abu Al-Atta family. Public Prosecution must bring to justice those who violated the law and due process, and take necessary measures to ensure that such abuses are not repeated.

 

End.

Browse more

  • Goldstone Report

  • News Briefs

  • Reports and Studies

  • Legal Guide Series

  • International Humanitarian Law

Related

  • #state of insecurity
  • #local detention
  • The Police Arrest Several Citizens in Rafah City, including a Child

  • Al Mezan strongly condemns the police crackdown on peaceful protests in Gaza and assaults on journalists

  • The police disperse a peaceful protest in North Gaza District

  • The police arrest two young men at Al-Shuhada Square in Rafah

  • Al Mezan urges the Palestinian Public Prosecution to investigate the death of detainee in Gaza prison

News

    Related:

    Share Site :

About Al Mezan

Al Mezan is an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental human rights organization based in Gaza.

  • Al Mena – Omar El Mukhtar Street, Gaza Strip, Palestine
  • +970 (08) 2820442/7
  • info@mezan.org

Main Menu

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Memberships
  • Privacy Policy
  • Complaints and Suggestions
  • Donate

Stay Informed with Al Mezan

Subscribe to Our Mailing List

Get the latest updates from the field in Gaza and insights into our advocacy work for justice and accountability for the Palestinian people, delivered directly to your inbox.

Preferred Language:

All Rights Reserved © Al Mezan Center for Human Rights