The lawyer of Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, who disappeared from a Ukrainian train in February and later turned up in an Israeli prison, said his client had been forced to confess aiding the extremist Hamas organization.
Six police protocols presented to a district court in Beersheba city on Aug. 11 indicate that Abu-Sisi told his Israeli investigators in March that he was involved in developing missiles and setting up the military academy for Hamas extremist group.
His lawyer, Tal Linoy, said the Palestinian, who studied for several years in Ukraine in the 1990s, confessed under pressure.
“Illegal methods of investigation were applied to my client,” Linoy told the Kyiv Post.
Palestinian’s wife Veronika Abu Sisi slammed the publications of details from the protocols in Israeli media as “vile slander and lies” and said her husband had confessed under torture and blackmail.
Israeli government representatives could not be reached for comment.
Abu Sisi vanished from a Kharkiv-Kyiv sleeper train on Feb. 19. According to human rights advocates who visited him in jail, Abu Sisi said he had been abducted by agents of the Israeli secret service. Since then he has been kept in solitary confinement in prison.
Linoy said the Israeli Ministry of Defense had banned publication of details about the Palestinian’s arrest and the methods applied to Abu Sisi during the interrogation.
“Illegal methods of investigation were applied to my client,” Linoy told the Kyiv Post.
The lawyer nevertheless revealed that once in March his client attempted to go on hunger strike, after which “he was kept chained to an iron bed on hands and feet for 14 hours, and was released only after agreeing to accept food.”
The lawyer said he plans to apply to Israel’s Supreme Court to allow publication of all the papers on the Abu Sisi case, saying currently only the materials that are advantageous for prosecutors had been made public.
The indictment accused Abu Sisi of hundreds of counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and production of weapons.
“They [the prosecutors] just lynch my client by publishing against him only the data they want to publish,” Linoy said.
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