benji - prisoner X

The only "democracy in the Middle East " has much to answer for. Bu it won't and no serious questions will be asked  even by the  the other governments involved.   

Not unless there is a lot of public pressure. For the truth behind the  smoke and mirrors of  official hasbara. 

Ben Zygier, identified by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as an agent for Israel's Mossad, was reportedly locked in solitary confinement since 2010 in a high-security Israeli prison. Photograph: ABC TV

The Israeli authorities have partially lifted a gag order concerning a man known as "Prisoner X", following widespread international coverage of the case of the top-secret detainee who hanged himself in a high-security prison in Israel. The prisoner was revealed to be an Australian citizen.

According to Israel Radio, domestic media outlets were permitted to quote foreign reports on Prisoner X but not publish or broadcast original material.

The allegations were reported on international news websites, but the Israeli media was forbidden from publishing or broadcasting details. Editors were called by the Israeli prime minister's office to an emergency meeting on Tuesday afternoon, at which their co-operation with the government and the withholding of sensitive information was demanded. Gag orders and military censorship are common in Israel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/israel-prisoner-x-australian-mossad-agent

"Even if Prisoner X has now been identified, his crime remains a mystery although it has been widely speculated that it would have involved treachery to warrant such extreme measures."

Details of one of two gagging orders acquired by the Israeli government have been disclosed to the Guardian .

Israel first sought to prevent reporting of the case in an injunction it sought in March 2010. A second "clarifying order" was issued by Judge Hila Gerstel of the central district court, making clear that the reporting ban referred to all Israeli media and preventing any discussion of the man who had been referred to variously as "Prisoner X", "Mr X" or "cell 15 in Ayalon prison".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/israel-prisoner-x-australian-mossad-agent