The World - News from Aug. 4, 1987

Two new reports by human rights groups detail allegations that Palestinian children are tortured in Israeli prisons and accuse Israel of exercising a policy of arbitrary arrest of minors in the occupied territories. In sworn affidavits, Arab teen-agers described being hooded and handcuffed for long periods, beaten with riot sticks on their feet and genitals and locked for hours in a 3-foot-wide cupboard. Israeli authorities rejected the assertions made by Law in the Service of Man, founded by Palestinian lawyers, and a second report by the Rev. Riah abu Assal, an Anglican priest from Nazareth.