Harrassment, Sexual and Non-Sexual

Both links courtesy of The Angry Arab News Service. This Christian Science Monitor article provides a glimpse of what awaits women who've been detained at Abu Ghraib once they've been released. It's a pretty miserable fate.

Meanwhile, the Guardian UK reports that Israel gave journalist Peter Hounam a lesson in how THEY incarcerate, holding him in solitary confinement in what he described as a dungeon. Excrement was smeared on the walls of his basement cell, and he was allowed all of two hours sleep.

What was Hounan's crime? Speaking to Mordechai Vanunu, the man who shined the light on the Israeli nuclear program. Vanunu spent eighteen years in mostly solitary confinement for this act of courage. Released from prison last month, Israel continues to harass him. Vanunu can't even leave the country.

The United States and Israel: Partners in Crime.