• Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

    With thousands now held without charge, lawyers say Israel is signalling that no detainee is safeMarwan Barghouti spends his days huddled in a cramped, dark, solitary cell, with no way to tend to his wounds, and a shoulder injury from being dragged with his hands cuffed behind his back.Barghouti holds almost mythic status within Palestinian politics, seen as a figure whose potential to unify different factions has only grown during his 24 years in prison. Continue reading