Two doctors from East Jerusalem held on charges of terrorist activities and a large quantity of arms and ammunition seized there in the past two weeks were presented to some 40 Arab neighborhood mukhtars (headmen) by police yesterday. The doctors, Nahib Muammer and Subhi Ghoshi, were rumored to have been tortured and otherwise mistreated by police. They appeared surprised by the rumors and told the mukhtars that they were well and needed nothing from home because they were in contact with their families. The “showing” was put on at the request of Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem to silence the torture rumors and to convince the Arab leaders who did not believe that arms had been found in East Jerusalem homes.
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