15 SEPTEMBER 2021
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
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Questions and Answers
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Question: Thank you, Stéphane. I want to follow up with a question Ibtisam asked you a few days ago about the status of the Palestinian… four prisoners who managed to escape, but they were recaptured. The lawyer of the prisoners, Khaled Mahajneh, met one of them, and he gave a strong statement to the press about how much suffering they went through after they were captured.
One of them kept completely naked for seven hours. They were denied food. They were denied sleeping. And Zakaria Zubeidi was beaten by a number of security people, and the beating shows on his face.
So, the statement of these lawyers, did it reach the ears of Mr. [Tor] Wennesland?
Spokesman: Look, our principal position is that no prisoners anywhere should suffer inhumane treatment. We are following this particular situation closely of those people who were re-arrested through their interlocutors on the ground who have access to the prisoners.
When I have more, I will share it with you.
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Question: Stéphane, I know that the Commissioner-General of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) would be here in the building around the… around 1 October. Kindly, we request that if we can meet with him in this room.
Spokesman: That sounds like a plan.
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For information media. Not an official record.
Document Sources: Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Global Communications, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)
Subject: Prisoners and detainees
Publication Date: 15/09/2021
URL source: https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/db210915.doc.htm