Læge og sygeplejersker blev udsat for tortur i Libyen

Den palæstinensiske læge og muslim, Ashraf Alhajouj, der blev holdt som gidsel i Libyen sammen med 5 bulgarske sygeplejersker, har været udsat for tortur. I den venstreorienterede avis, The Guardian, kan man læse, at politiet anbragte ham i et hundebur og beordrede hundene til at angribe ham:

“For the first days I was locked up with three dogs who were ordered to attack me. My leg is full of scars and marks from where they bit me [and] I had a big hole in my knee,” he said.

Der Spiegel skriver, at han og de fem sygeplejersker var spærret inde på politiets hundepension og at lægen fik sin mad serveret i en hundeskål. Perverteret seksuel tortur indgik også i repertoiret. Fra The Guardian:

Later, he said, wire cable that had been stripped of its plastic coating, was wound round his penis and he was dragged “screaming and crying” across the floor. He was also given electric shocks with a generator-style machine.

Samme oplysning i Der Spiegels udgave:

One of the things they did was to wrap bare wire around my penis. Then they would drag me around a room that was at least 40 by 40 meters. I screamed and cried.

Elektrochock på kønsorganerne. Hvordan mon det føles, at få hele sin krops vægt slæbt hen over et gulv i en metalwire, der er snoet rundt om penis? Hvormange at kroppens naturlige funktioner er overhovedet intakte efter den behandling? Og der er mere endnu. Fra The Guardian:

“They put the minus cable on my finger and the plus cable on my ear or my genitals. The most painful thing was their ability to increase the speed of the electricity flow. When I fell unconscious they would throw cold water over my naked body and then begin all over again,” he said. The torture times were set for between 5pm and 5am and continued for 13 months. The nurses were submitted to similar treatment.

De bulgarske sygeplejersker fik altså samme behandling. Desuden blev de voldtaget for øjnene af hinanden - en af dem forsøgte selvmord. Fra The Guardian:

 

Foto: sagens egentlige forbryder 

“Sometimes we were tortured in the same room. I saw them half-naked, they saw me completely naked when I was being electrocuted. We heard each others’ whimpering, crying and screaming.” He said he saw the women being raped and watched as one of them broke a piece of glass from the window and cut her wrists when she could not bear it any longer.

Det klassiske nummer med at spænde offeret fast til jernrammen fra en seng, mestrede libyerne også. Og endnu en libysk specialitet fra Der Spiegel:

Kristiana was forced to put a bottle in her vagina

Lægen fortæller også, at forholdene på hospitalet var en katastrofe. De kunne ikke arbejde forsvarligt. Det var ingen rene nåle til injektionssprøjterne, apparatet der skulle sterilisere instrumenterne var i stykker og der var kun én saks på fødeafdelingen. Derfor måtte personalet bruge det samme værktøj,  når de skulle klippe navlestrangen på snesevis af nyfødte.

Ifølge norske Aftenposten, var der oprindelig endnu en læge fængslet. Han blev holdt som gidsel i fem år:

I to år bodde jeg i møkk. Opp til åtte av oss delte en celle på under seks kvadratmeter. Selv med bare tre var det forferdelig. I løpet av to år kunne jeg ikke legge meg for å sove. Jeg kunne bare sitte. Til å drikke fikk vi bare salt vann, forteller han.

Han sier at han ble slått av vokterne, og at han fikk fire tenner slått ut da etterforskere angrep ham med køller.

Disse gidsler er de samme mennesker, som på blogge skrevet af herboende islamister er blevet kaldt forbrydere og grådige, østeuropæiske kællinger, fordi de ikke synes, de havde fortjent tortur, falske anklager og domme for kriminalitet, de ikke har begået.

En af bloggerne har også hævdet, at den palæstinensiske læge skulle have sagt, at det værste ved fængslet var at dele celle med libyerne. Det er ikke korrekt. Det er et par andre ting, lægen fremhæver som det værste. Fra Der Speigel:

But the worst thing was that they threatened to torture my family and rape my sisters in front of my eyes. After God, my family is the most sacred thing I have, and I am the only brother of four sisters. At one point they brought in a girl, and all I could hear was her voice, screaming: “I am your sister. I am being raped.”

Og:

What was the worst moment in more than eight years of torture, humiliation and the fear of death? It was the moment of our release.

When the guards entered my cell at 3:30 in the morning on July 24, they didn’t jingle their keys or shout the way they normally did. Instead, they whispered: “Ashraf, Ashraf, wake up! You must prepare yourself for a visit.”

I jumped up, looked at the clock and felt an ominous sense of doom. Who would visit me at this time of the night? The thought flashed through my mind that they were going to shoot me now, and that they would later claim that I had tried to run away.

Ashraf har ikke meget tilovers for de alt for mange muslimer, der ligesom de islamistiske bloggere herhjemme ikke vil sætte sig ind i kendsgerninger. De andre fanger havde adgang til aviser, hvor den palæstinensiske læge kunne studere den tilstand, som også de nævnte danske bloggere befinder sig i:

The guards brought the other prisoners Libyan newspapers, which accused us of being child murderers. The Arab papers also spread these lies, picking up their stories from Libyan sources. Instead of defending me, the Palestinian envoy claimed that I had confessed to him that I was a Mossad agent and had deliberately infected the children. Many of the prisoners believed this. We Arabs are hypocrites. We know the truth and yet we believe the lies.

Og:

It doesn’t even faze me now, when I read that Tripoli is calling upon the Arab League to lodge protests against our pardon in Bulgaria, and that the parents of the infected children are demanding that we be returned to Libya. They have known for a long time that we are innocent.

Nogle af gidslerne har tænkt sig at føre en sag:

But I do want to testify in a case that a Bulgarian attorney is bringing against two of the worst of our Libyan torturers. I hope the nurses will also testify. I plan to fight, even if it takes until the end of my life, to clear our names in the Arab world.

Muslimsk retfærdighed? Eller bare arabisk retfærdighed? Det er der vist ikke noget, der hedder. Der, hvor den islamiske mytologi hersker, findes der notorisk ingen menneskelighed…

Andre kilder: Aftenposten, BBC, Nasdaq, The Globe and Mail,

Opdatering den 9. august fra svenske svt. Gaddafis søn indrømmer, at sygeplejerskerne blev udsat for tortur:

De fem bulgariska sköterskor och den läkare som nyligen släpptes ur libyskt fängelse utsattes för tortyr för att erkänna att de hade smittat barn med hiv.

Det säger Libyens ledare Muammar Khadaffis son Saif al-Islam i en intervju med kanalen al-Jazira. Enligt sonen ska de ha utsatts för tortyr med elektricitet och hotats.

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