‘Jews Tortured To Death’
(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) TEL AVIV, Feb. 24. Five Iraqi Jews have been tortured to death in Bagdad Prison, according to an Israeli Foreign Ministry’ official in Jerusalem, quoted by the New York Times News Service.
Mr Shlomo Hillel, Deputy Director of the Ministry, made the accusation in an interview broadcast by Koi Israel, the State radio station. Mr Hillel did not identify the victims nor supply any other details, but said the Bagdad regime was treating its Jews, as captives and hostages. Conditions in Syria and Egypt, he added, were not much better
with spying for Israel showed that the Bagdad regime was
still trying to arouse the Iraqi people against Israel and against the Jews
Syrian Jews, Mr Hillel said, were required to report to the police three time a day: and Jewish girls had been forced to marry Moslems. Dozens of Syrian Jews were being held in the infamous Tadmor Prison, he said, adding that in Egypt, Jews who had been imprisoned for a year and a half had finally decided to put an end to their lives. Mr Hillel said that while there were no Jews among the latest batch of prisoners publicly hanged last week in Bagdad, the fact that the accused men had been charged
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 17
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