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A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations.
Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a 16-year-old Palestinian whose kidnap and murder by suspected Zionist extremists on Wednesday has caused Palestinian uproar.
“He was given nine days house arrest in Beit Hanina for the duration of the investigation,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, following a hearing at Jerusalem Magistrates Court, referring to a neighborhood of annexed east Jerusalem.
Tareq, 15, was arrested on Thursday in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat during clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli riot police which erupted early on Wednesday.
According to his parents, and corroborated by photographs of his severely swollen and bruised face, Abu Khudair was beaten in police custody, provoking a rebuke from the US State Department, which said it was “profoundly troubled” by the report.
He was holidaying in Jerusalem when his cousin was murdered in what was widely believed to be an attack by Israelis following the death of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank last month.
Until now, Israel police have claimed the motive for the cousin’s murder was unclear, but on Sunday, Samri said there were “indications that apparently the background to the killing was nationalistic.” All other details are under a gag order.
Preliminary post-mortem results showed the teenager had been burned alive.
A day after Abu Khudair’s arrest, a video surfaced on YouTube showing what appeared to be Israeli border police beating and kicking a handcuffed semi-conscious figure lying on the ground, before dragging him away.
Police confirmed the footage was taken during the arrest of six Palestinians in Shuafat, but could not say whether the figure was that of the teenager, whose mother showed AFP a picture of him with his face grossly distorted by injuries and swelling.
His parents added that Tareq did not receive medical treatment until five hours after his arrest, and that they were forbidden from seeing their son until he was sent to a hospital. Unconfirmed reports said that Abu Khudair may have suffered from internal bleeding after the brutal beating.
“We are profoundly troubled by reports that he was severely beaten while in police custody and strongly condemn any excessive use of force,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
“We are calling for a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force.”
The justice ministry’s police investigations department began an investigation into the violence on Saturday evening following an order by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni who demanded the incident be “urgently” looked into, a statement said.
Source: Al Akhbar
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