Tortured, tased, threatened: Asian flotilla activists recount violence in Israeli captivity
JAKARTA: Rahendro Herubowo remembers that the torture began almost as soon as he was thrown onto the deck of an Israeli military ship converted into a detention vessel.
He and fellow activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were forced to lie down on a floor flooded with water, and were then moved into a large container, where armed, masked soldiers kept on assaulting them.
“We were beaten there. We weren’t allowed to stand up straight while we were moving, so we were half-squatting as we walked and were beaten on the stomach, on the waist, left and right,” Herubowo told Arab News.
“I fell onto the ground at one point and they kicked and stepped on my back. Then they shocked me with a taser. I tried to hold out, screaming as loudly as I could, and then they released me into the detention area.”
