A Palestinian Arab who told a United Nations investigating committee that he was tortured in an Israeli jail was never even arrested, it was disclosed here today. According to local newspapers, Taysir Nabulsi, of Jenin, a former education inspector in the Nablus district, was expelled to Jordan after he was involved in organizing an anti-Israel student strike in Jenin. But he was not detained or harmed, the papers said. Mr. Nabulsi appeared in Amman before a special UN committee investigating human rights in the Israel-occupied territories. He claimed he was severely beaten in jail. This is the second time in the past few weeks that testimony by a witness before the committee has been discredited. Earlier, an official of the Syrian Red Crescent submitted a document purported to be by the World Council of Churches alleging maltreatment of Arabs in occupied territories. The WCC repudiated the document. Israel has refused to admit the UN group on grounds that it was set up one-sidedly to investigate only allegations of Israeli mistreatment of Arabs and not the condition of Jews in Arab countries as well.
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