Why are prisoners afraid to go to medical clinics? A released Palestinian prisoner’s testimony reveals the other side of “medicine” in prisons.

It wasn’t fear of illness that kept Palestinian prisoners away from prison clinics. It was fear of the “treatment” itself. This is how released prisoner Ahmed Shaqoura describes the year and a half he spent in Israeli occupation prisons. According to his testimony, the medical clinic became another site of torture and humiliation, not healing. […] By Alaa Shamali