Palestinian writer Lama Khater 42 and a mother of five children was detained on July 24 during a raid at her home and has since been undergoing rigorous interrogation in Israeli detention that lasts as long as 20 hours a day.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) Khater was first charged of writing what her Israeli interrogators claimed were “time bombs.” But then the charges included membership in an illegal organization assuming a leading position in it and providing services to this organization. Her writings however remained the main focus of the interrogation.
Khater’s daily rigorous and long interrogation continued in an attempt to get her to make confessions which she refused to do.
A PPS attorney who was able to visit her on Tuesday morning said the interrogators have threatened to arrest other people to force her to confess to the charges but she would not budge.
Khater told her attorney that she was kept with her hands and legs tied on a chair all the time while in the interrogation room. She leaves the room only when she needs to go the toilet.
Last week an Israeli military court had remanded the Palestinian writer and mother of five to 12 days to continue interrogation. However her attorney was able to get the court after an appeal to reduce the remand to eight days. Her next court hearing is on Thursday the sixth in less than a month.
