TRT World - Israeli army drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually abusing Palestinian in Sde Teiman
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The Israeli military claims "procedural" issues and the detainee’s "return" to Gaza prevented a fair trial in the case involving sexual abuse at the Sde Teiman detention centre.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44393460

The Israeli military has said it had dropped charges against five soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee at the high-security Sde Teiman prison, a case that had sparked widespread outrage.

At the time, the army said the soldiers were accused of “acting against the detainee with severe violence, including stabbing the detainee’s buttocks with a sharp object, which had penetrated near the detainee’s rectum”.

Explaining the decision to drop the charges, the military said “procedural difficulties regarding the transfer of information” by Israeli police had “undermined the defendants’ right to a fair trial”.