Daniella Peled

Daniella Peled
Daniella Peled is managing editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting which gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change, supporting local reporters, citizen journalists and civil society activists in three dozen countries in conflict, crisis and transition around the world
Israel’s “Prisoner X” case and the creep of military censorship

Israel’s “Prisoner X” case and the creep of military censorship

by | 13 Feb 13

OPINION: In June 2010, Israel’s Ynet website reported on the detention, and then six months later on the death, of unknown detainee “Prisoner X” in solitary confinement. A gag order issued by an Israeli court soon after put an end to any reporting on the case, or even reporting of the order itself. “Prisoner X” became a byword in the Israeli media for yet one more of the kind of security-related stories that no-one quite knows the truth of, and probably never will. Nothing more was heard until this week, when an Australian TV documentary claimed that the man in question was one Ben Zygier, a 34-year-old father-of-two and an Australian citizen who had moved to Israel a decade earlier. […]

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