To watch the entire interview with Dan Yakir on Democracy Now!, visit [ Ссылка ]. An international scandal is growing after Ben Zygier, an Australian-Israeli man with ties to Israel's spy agency, the Mossad, died inside a maximum security prison in Israel. For more than two years, the Israeli government imposed a strict gag order on his 2010 death, but now the secret is leaking out. Dan Yakir, chief legal counsel for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, details the group's two-year effort to uncover information about Prisoner X.

DAN YAKIR: "In May 2010, there was a short-lived report on an Israeli news site, Ynet, regarding a Prisoner X held in Ayalon Prison in complete isolation, and even the prison guards don't know his identity and are prohibited from talking to him. After a few hours, this report vanished, and it raised our concerns regarding the rights of the prisoner and the conditions that he is held, but also the complete secrecy around the affair. And we tried to gather some details about it but couldn't. And that's why we addressed the attorney general for the first time. Six months later, we got information from a—from a source connected to the media about him being found dead in his cell, and then we filed the motion with the courts."

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