台湾行政院长卓荣泰星期五（12月19日）接受台湾媒体访问时说，政府审慎乐观看待明年经济，且总统赖清德积极推动“台湾之盾”，军工产业链可望成为新蓝海，若顺利，将成为明年经济的新动能，期待经济成长率可以更高。
卓荣泰告诉台湾《经济日报》，军工产业有望成为台湾过去未曾纳入经济发展想像的新蓝海，因国防韧性特别预算除军备采购外，更重要的是建构本土军工产业链。
赖清德上个月宣布，未来八年编列400亿美元（520亿4300万新元）国防特別预算，打造“台湾之盾”等，以因应中国大陆武统台湾。
台湾主计总处预估，台湾今年经济成长率将达7.37％，明年可达3.54％。卓荣泰指出，今年整体经济表现明显优于年初预期，第一季、第两季都维持高成长，第三季、第四季也没有转弱。
日本媒体报道，日本经贸代表团拟下月访华，但北京至今尚未给予明确答复。
日本共同社星期五（12月19日）引述消息人士称，日中经济协会会长进藤孝生星期四（18日）在东京与中国驻日大使吴江浩会面。进藤提出希望中方安排接待由该协会、日本经济团体联合会及日本商工会议等所组成的经济代表团明年1月访问北京。
他强调，在日本首相高市早苗涉台国会答辩导致中日关系恶化的当下，两国依旧保持经济交流的重要性。
上述访问由日中经协组织，包括经团联会长筒井义信和日商主席小林健在内的日企高层计划1月20日至23日访问北京，并希望实现与中方高层的会面。
然而，距离访问仅剩一个月，北京仍未给出明确答复，不排除访问延期或取消的可能性。小林星期四在记者会上谈及访华前景时说：“听说中方的反应并不十分积极。”
筒井也曾在11月28日与吴江浩会面时，提出希望中方对代表团访华予以安排。
共同社11月引述消息人士称，日本企业代表团原定11月24日至27日访华，期间与中国商务部长王文涛会面，但因中方要求延期。
在本月初的中国外交部例行记者会上，针对北京会否为有意访华的日本经贸代表团安排出访行程，发言人林剑回应时说，中国敦促日本反思纠错，撤回首相高市早苗的错误言论，停止伤害两国的国民感情，以实际行动体现对华的政治承诺，为中日的正常交流创造必要条件。希望日本的相关团体在日本国内多发挥积极作用。
© Kent J. Edwards for The New York Times
The Trump administration, initially wary over the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein documents, pounced on go-to villain Bill Clinton’s appearance in Friday’s trove of pictures, emails and interviews.
“I wonder why the Biden DOJ refused to release the files…,” DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin posted from his personal X account, alongside one partially-redacted photo of Clinton in a pool with an unidentified woman. Another swimming pool photo Gilmartin posted shows Clinton with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime co-conspirator who was convicted of sex trafficking charges in 2021.
Trump and the DOJ also resisted releasing the files until Congress passed a bill to do so. Trump signed the bill last month.
Clinton has long been linked with Epstein, contributing to his status as MAGA’s favored boogeyman. Some high-profile members of the movement cited him in pushing for the release of the files, and continued that message after the DOJ made public a trove of documents from the government’s investigation into Epstein.
“Slick Willy! @BillClinton just chillin, without a care in the world. Little did he know…” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung posted to X.
“Here is Bill Clinton in a hot tub next to someone whose identity has been redacted. Per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, DOJ was specifically instructed only to redact the faces of victims and/or minors. Time for the media to start asking real questions,” White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson posted to her personal X account.
The act also allowed the DOJ to redact material related to active investigations.
It’s unclear when the previously unreleased photo was taken and where the pool is located.
Clinton appears in photos posing with Epstein in coordinating shirts, interacting with a dancer, sitting with a redacted woman on his lap on what looks like an airplane and with someone who appears to be the late pop icon Michael Jackson. The music legend faced his own child sex abuse allegations as early as 1993, though he was never convicted of any crimes.
The former president is also seen at a dinner sitting next to rock star Mick Jagger, alongside Maxwell and Epstein.
Epstein faced state and federal charges over two decades related to the sexual abuse and trafficking of dozens of underage girls as young as 14. He pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges in 2008, one of which was for soliciting prostitution from someone under 18. He was awaiting trial on federal child trafficking charges when he died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019. His connections to the wealthy and powerful, and efforts to keep information related to him from becoming public, has become part of the national political narrative – intensifying bipartisan sniping and deepening fractures in Trump’s base.
The files were heavily redacted. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said earlier Friday that the first dissemination would be partial, with as many as hundreds of thousands of more documents to follow in the coming weeks.
A spokesperson for Clinton said the Friday afternoon timing of the document release is “about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever.”
“So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton,” Angel Ureña, deputy chief of staff for Clinton, posted in a statement on X. “There are two types of people here. The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.”
Clinton and Epstein have been linked since the early 1990s, having run in the same social circles. They have been photographed together several times. Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane in the early 2000s, taking trips to Europe, Asia and Africa. Ureña said those trips included stops for work connected to the Clinton Foundation.
The former president has never been accused of any wrongdoing in connection to Epstein, and said he was not aware of Epstein’s crimes, something a Clinton spokesperson reiterated in a social media post six years ago.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee this month released additional photos from Epstein’s estate that feature Clinton.
Trump has long suggested that Clinton repeatedly visited Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the location of alleged sex trafficking and abuse where the financier hosted high-profile friends. But White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a Vanity Fair interview published this week that Trump was “wrong” to tie Clinton to Epstein’s criminal activity.
Trump and Epstein were longtime friends before Trump said they had a falling out several years ago. The president has denied wrongdoing in relation to the Epstein allegations, and no evidence has suggested that he took part in Epstein’s trafficking operation.
Brakkton Booker contributed to this report.
© Department of Justice
“国家收藏”因此避免了一次与“无法核查”划等号的命运
Photo of tobiasbjorkli by Pexels
文｜呦呦鹿鸣
如果不是这个数字：起拍价8800万，普通人很少会注意到《江南春》手卷。现在，人们好奇：为什么，庞莱臣后人向南京博物院捐赠的《江南春》手卷会出现在2025拍卖市场？
昨天晚上9点多，南京博物院发布了《情况说明》：
“高度重视”“迅速开展调查核实”“将依法依规严肃处理”“尚待进一步查证”，这些词语组合在一起，给我们传递了一种熟悉的安全感：“放心吧，系统正在稳健运转”。
但问题在于，珍贵文物确确实实在系统里“不知去向”了。
昨天文章《退捐还画，两难自解》我们已经提到了，这不知去向的5幅画分别是：明代仇英《江南春》，北宋赵光辅《双马图轴》、明代王绂《松风萧寺图轴》、清初王时敏《仿北苑山水轴》、清代汤贻汾《设色山水轴》。
其中，明代仇英《江南春》出现在2025年北京某拍卖会春拍市场，起拍价8800万元。曾向南京博物院捐赠《江南春》的庞增和的女儿发现后，向文物管理部门紧急反映，才被撤拍。
《情况说明》虽然说要“深入核查该5幅画作的去向”“进一步查证”“进一步加强对捐赠物品和馆藏文物的规范管理”，言辞说得挺好，可是，恰恰在这一点上，南京博物院的信誉已经透支了。
为什么呢？
早在2016年9月，上海《东方早报》报道： “自去年5月至今，庞增和的遗孀王念瑛和女儿庞叔令屡次向南博申请公开捐赠古画账目等信息无果。现在，她只希望南博能依法依规出示完整的账目，让一切透明化，依法让捐赠人监督、让社会公众监督。”
也就是说，捐赠人申请查明所捐古画账目，已经是十年前（2015年）的事了，当年报道此事的《东方早报》甚至都已经注销，不存在了。
直到2025年6月，庞家通过诉讼，在法院司法文书的支持下，得以进库房查看，这才得知，5件古画不知去向。
因此，长期以来，南京博物院对于查看古画账目一直是拒绝的、不情不愿的、遮遮掩掩的，最后也只是被法院敲开了库房大门。
现在，人们要如何才能相信南博真的会自己“深入核查画作去向”呢？
要多少个十年，才够他们“深入核查”？
其实，如果真的要核查，并没有多大难度。《情况说明》中提到了“依照《博物馆藏品管理办法》对该5幅画作进行了处置”。我细看了下这个《管理办法》，其中明确的管理程序有：《库房日记》、提用凭证、出库手续、借出手续、登帐、编目、入库手续等，而且，藏品总数及增减数字，每年年终都要报省一级备案并做说明。
如果真的是依照这个《管理办法》的话，那么，账目就太清楚不过了。至少会知道，在哪个环节失踪了。
我个人相信，经过十年官司，对这5幅画作的去向，南京博物院是心里有底的。但是，他们始终没说。所以，这则《情况说明》，水分比较大，至少没有“知无不言、言无不尽”，单独来看，没啥漏洞，拉长时间看，就显得很空洞。它丝毫无助于减轻这件事的荒诞感：
一个为国家管理文物的公共机构，竟然需要捐赠人申请十年以上，需要法院强制，才让看一眼账目。
那么，如果外面的人要查，有没有线索呢？
有两个线索。
第一个线索，是这两天文藏界挖掘出来的“姚迁之死”。
确实，谈到南京博物院，就很难绕开姚迁。
姚迁生于1926年江苏如东一个农民家庭，1943年高中毕业，1944年加入中国共产党后，从事文教工作（儿童团辅导员、文教科督学、小学教导主任、校长、师范教员），1949年之后，担任县文教科科长、苏北行署教育处小教科副科长、江苏省文化局文化科科长、处长，1958年调江苏省历史研究所任副所长，1962年任南京博物院副院长。
就这个轨迹来看，是那种组织看着一路成长的行政干部。
1964年，南京博物院院长曾昭燏自杀身亡，时年55岁。姚迁接任院长，然而，20年后，1984年，姚迁在院长任上自缢身亡，时年58岁。
“姚迁之死”不仅是当年的国内大事件，也引起国外关注。原因之一是南京博物院地位独特：虽然它现在只是副厅级单位，但前身是1933年成立的“国立中央博物院”，是我国第一座由国家投资兴建的大型综合类博物馆，由于历史原因，承袭了大量文物珍藏，1950年才更名为南京博物院。
那么，当时到底发生了什么？
明面上的原因是《光明日报》的报道。1984年8月26日、27日，《光明日报》连续发表两篇报道《南博院长姚迁以权谋私侵占科研人员学术成果》、《姚迁在执行知识分子政策方面存在严重问题》，并配发评论员文章《知识分子的智力成果不容侵占》。报道让姚迁不堪重压。
在江苏作家庞瑞垠先生的报告文学《姚迁之死》中，则进行了更加深入的评述：伴随这三篇文章的，是南京博物院文革期间原“造反派”的诬陷，以及省里一些人“一连串非同寻常”的打压，“这里经历了第二次WG”。终于，1984年11月7日，风暴眼中的姚迁在卫生间自缢。
姚迁自杀后，中纪委的调查组南下江苏，给姚迁平反，做出“错案，姚迁含冤去世”的结论，负有直接责任的一位省委常委、宣传部长被撤职。《光明日报》也承认错误，发表《光明日报编辑部关于姚迁事件报道严重失实的检查》。
在报告文学《姚迁之死》中，将原因归结于不正常的派系斗争、“南博的第二次文革”，没有提到和文物去向有关。但是，在红学家冯其庸先生的口述自传《风雨平生》（商务印书馆版）中，专门写了一篇《姚迁事件》。原文如下：
“为什么1984年会出现“姚迁事件”呢？因为江苏省委有一些老同志喜欢文物，尤其是字画，经常到南京博物院去借有名的字画去看。
按说这种做法都已经不合适了，因为博物馆的藏品，一般不能外借给私人的，只能展览的时候你来看。
有些专家来了专门要看哪一件，调出来看，这也是可以的，借回去看是绝无可能的。但是因为他们是省委领导，姚迁也无奈，就让他们借回去了。但是姚迁非常认真，他都记录了，谁借什么，借的时间多久，到时间他就去催，催不回来他也去催，经常是隔一段时间就去催。后来这些老同志心里有点不高兴了。
有一次，有一位老同志就跟我打招呼，他说，你以后有事不必去找姚迁，你们红学方面的事找我们就行了，姚迁有问题，估计要退下来了。我也不知道什么原因，也没有去问。
后来是姚迁跟我讲的。好几位老同志借了博物院的字画不还，姚迁非常头痛，当然，他职责所在，不能不去催。”
冯其庸先生说，得知姚迁自杀后，他找到了中央很多领导，最后中央派了调查组到江苏去，为姚迁平反。冯其庸先生在文中认定：
“经过这一番调查，一清二楚，姚迁是为了保护国家的文物，最后遭到种种打击、诬蔑，弄得他觉得已经走投无路了，国内外都传开来了，所以他上吊自杀了。”
虽然，在这份材料中，冯其庸先生的话可信度比较高，大家也很受震动，可是，由于我们并没有看到中央的调查报告内容，而姚迁自杀的直接原因（发表文章的署名问题）又与文物保护没有直接关系，庞瑞垠《姚迁之死》更是对文物保护只字不提——我们现在暂时只得到来自冯其庸先生的一个孤证，就很难一口断定：姚迁是因为保护文物而死。
还有一个原因是，我看到一些反面证据。
姚迁担任20年院长，和庞家有直接交集，而庞家和南京博物院的冲突，恰恰姚迁也是极为重要的当事人。
在庞家于1959年向南京博物院捐赠137件文物之后，南博继续动员庞家将剩余文物征集给南博。根据2009年出版的曾昭燏日记记载，从1962年12月至1963年11月之间，南博向庞增和家征集了11件“虚斋旧藏”古画。其中除了宋徽宗赵佶的一幅《鸲鹆图》出价1万元外，其他几件都以象征性的价格给了南博。
1963年，南京博物院征集员徐沄湫找到庞增和，请求借两件画用来办画展（元四家之一吴镇的 《松泉图》轴、清初吴历的《仿古山水册页》），说好展期三个月后就归还，不料，这两幅画就此杳无音讯。
偏偏1964年南京博物院院长曾昭燏自杀身亡，庞增和就不好意思去讨要这幅画，偏偏紧接着就是WG，庞家全家被下放到苏北大丰农村，庞家也被抄家。家中古画全部被抄走，包括借据。直到1979年，庞增和一家才得以回到苏州，这时，他们开始联系南博。
根据2016年《东方早报》报道，庞增和之妻王念瑛说：自1979年到1988年间的十年内，夫妻俩几次到南京博物院讨要两幅被借走的画作，却被干晾在办公室无人接见。“特别是当年到苏州参与征集的姚迁院长，曾经的殷勤变为冷漠，使庞增和夫妻心酸不已。庞增和遂在1988年向南京市玄武区人民法院提起诉讼，希望确认两件“虚斋旧藏”古画的所有权。”
法院的判决是：两幅画是南京博物院从庞家“征购”的，判令南博支付2.6万元画款、2.8万元利息。
法庭上的证据也令庞家唏嘘，因为1978年的藏品简目显示，被借走的《松泉图》和《仿古山水册页》，却被登记为捐赠，且捐赠人不是庞家，被登记为陶白。时任南京博物院院长徐湖平向法庭解释说：“是当时的院长姚迁关照，将这件藏品登记在陶白名下。”
从这些信息来看，院长姚迁在庞家古画文物上的态度令庞家心寒，而且有意改捐赠人名字的操作也相当可疑。
我非常希望姚迁是一位为保护文物而殚精竭虑、四处奔走、不惧权贵的人，这会让我更安心，只可惜，如今，却得知姚迁在院长任上未能善待庞家。对庞家如此，其他文物藏品是怎么管的呢？我不知道。
因此，对于姚迁之死，我还停留在“同情”上。
1964年，姚迁38岁，担任了南京博物院的院长，而这个位置不同于一般的行政岗位，它的要求极高，也受国际瞩目。或者，他就是那种中规中矩的、努力的但最终又受了委屈的行政干部吧。
或许他曾试图守住某些边界，也或许在另一些地方选择了妥协。历史的残酷之处在于，它往往同时容纳这两种可能。
历史常常是灰色的。在制度混乱的环境中，一个人既可能是受害者，也可能是问题链条的一环。
似乎，也不能责怪谁。毕竟，在本土，管理混乱缺乏章法是一个无法回避的话题，即便早就建章立制的领域也是如此。我记得2004年时，我曾经进入一个古战场开掘现场采访，当时来到一个单位，地上成堆新出土的青铜器，但凡我当时起了一点歪心思，拿走了也就拿走了，了无痕迹。这种场合太考验一个人的道德水准了。
斯人已去，关注姚迁，不如关注文物管理制度本身：为什么庞家作为捐赠者想要知道捐赠文物去向竟如此之难？
有没有可能，我们不需要去不断考验那些文物管理者的道德水平，就能管理好文物呢？有没有可能，当一个博物馆拒绝查阅、公开账册，负责人就立即会被制裁呢？
或许，少一些道德模范，少一些英雄，少一些“圣人”，自然而然地按公开规则运转，才是一个更加让人安心，更加稳健的社会。
另一个线索是《江南春》的公开拍卖。
这个线索更加明确，《江南春》手卷出现在2025年拍卖会上，且起拍价8800万元，可见，这件大概率是真品。
那么，它是从哪来的呢？
在《南京艺术学院学报》2006年3月刊上，我找到了南京师范大学美术学院博士生丁蔚文的《仇英 卷考辩》一文。
这篇文章第一段说：“艺兰斋收藏的《江南春》卷， 得于庞氏后人”。
这位作者丁蔚文，恰就是艺兰斋陆挺的妻子。
从文章看，这件《江南春》手卷是流传有序的，上面一共有60方印鉴，按年代顺序排列，其中，庞莱臣一共盖了12枚收藏印：
“庞莱臣珍藏印、虚斋珍藏、虚斋至精之品、莱臣欣赏、虚斋审定、虚斋秘藏、莱臣欣赏、虚斋、虚斋秘笈之印、虚斋秘玩、庞莱臣……”
可见，庞莱臣对《江南春》手卷的喜爱。爱到极致的那种。
《江南春》手卷价值点在哪？简单说就是“传统中国文人的诗情画意”。它记录的是一场诗文集会，先有了倪云林一首《江南春》词，沈周和了两首，仇英补上了绘画，，然后文征明、王宠、文彭、王榖祥、文嘉等等，继续和《江南春》词，累计三十多名文人名士在此留墨，陈鎏为此题了引首“江南佳丽”。
这幅长卷有7米，从题跋到绘画，花费了几十年。所以，这是一幅集体作品，是文学史、美术史上的一个精彩片段，它描绘的是一个文人理想中的世界：诗酒唱和，山水悠然，时间被拉长，世事被暂时搁置。它可以带着我们，完成一次对逼仄现实的短暂疏离。
对于某些人来说，什么文人名士，什么诗情画意，一文不值。但对于传统文化来说，这属于精神世界，意义非凡。
《江南春》手卷局部
2006年《南方周末》对艺兰斋的报道中，使用了这张图片：陆挺(左)与鉴定大师杨仁恺先生共同鉴赏仇英的《江南春卷》
在《瞭望新闻周刊》的报道中，陆挺说，《江南春卷》是艺兰斋的镇馆之宝。
那么，艺兰斋是从哪位“庞氏后人”手上得到它的呢？
前面说是得自“庞氏后人”。在2016年的《东方早报》、2025年澎湃新闻的报道中，庞家诉南京博物院名誉权案的法庭上，南京博物院研究馆员庞鸥提供的证据说，《江南春》原属庞莱臣在苏州的女儿，90年代被艺兰斋所收藏。
“后人”明确为“女儿”。但这件事最大的漏洞在于：庞莱臣并没有女儿。
根据当前已有信息，庞莱臣只有一个儿子，但31岁时病故了，给庞莱臣留下两个幼孙庞增和、庞增祥。由于独子早逝，庞莱臣将侄子庞维谨过继来作为嗣子，因此，庞莱臣在1949年去世之前，将藏品分为三份，分别留给两个孙子和这位嗣子，另有一小部分藏品由继室庞贺氏保管。
清晰的时间线是：庞莱臣1949年将《江南春》手卷留给了庞增和，庞增和1959年将它捐赠给南京博物院。
那么，艺兰斋这件到底哪来的？它“流传有序”是怎样的序？
艺兰斋的上一家是谁？是一个很接近真相的线索。可以确定的是，无论最终答案为何，总有一个人在说谎。
如今，南京博物院《情况说明》说，1959年庞家捐赠的《江南春》在1961年就被鉴定是伪作，是假的。
这种说法对捐赠者的名誉当然是一种损害，这意味着当年庞家竟拿伪作欺骗新兴的人民政府。
捐赠人庞增和的女儿庞叔令说，家中保存有父亲1959年向南京博物院捐赠时，亲笔写的全部137件（116种、268幅）藏品清册，字迹端正如同印刷一般，分为册页、立轴、成扇，时任苏州文化局局长的段东战和苏州博物馆馆长钱镛都在各页分别写下“以上逐件点过”，江苏博物馆和南博也出具公函确认收到“虚斋旧藏”古画。
我有几个简单的疑问：既然《江南春》手卷如艺兰斋丁蔚文所说，是时任国家文物局局长点名“非要不可”的，所有当事人都知道它的重要性，那么，如果1961年就认定是“伪作”，为什么不立即提出并向庞家询问真品去向呢？为什么直到2025年直到庞家通过法院查到《江南春》手卷去向不明了，才告知他们这是伪作呢？而且，这件“伪作”为什么不见了？还有，为什么上世纪90年代艺兰斋宣布收藏《江南春》手卷之后，南京博物院不去找他们核查呢？
其他问题还挺多的。
迄今为止，这件事唯一让我感动的，就是庞家。自1979年从大丰农村回到苏州后，他们就一直没有放弃对这批文物的追问，虽然屡屡碰壁，不断吃闭门羹，坐冷板凳，被泼脏水，但，从庞增和、王念瑛到庞叔令，他们两代人接力，不断申请、申诉，王念瑛甚至因此气得心脏病发作而故去，最后，他们通过法院让南京博物院打开了库房大门，也才终于将藏品不知去向的事实大白于天下，将当前文物管理体系的弊病展现在所有人面前，“国家收藏”因此避免了一次与“无法核查”划等号的命运，恰巧也中止了一次起拍价8800万元的可疑拍卖。
由此受益的，是中国的文脉，而一直以来受委屈的，是他们一家。
1979-2025，他们跨越46年的耐心本身，就很了不起。时局波诡云谲，而时间将证明一切——这种对待文物的态度本身，对得起他们的家族先辈庞莱臣先生，也对得起文物本身在时间上的厚重。
文物不应在黑箱里消失。昨天的文章里，我提出了“退捐还画”的建议。今天，写完这篇文章后，仍觉得这个建议最为合理。
江南依旧，春色何辜？愿你我仍能唱和，愿江南秀美暖人心。
呦呦鹿鸣20251218
假酒与真权交织，此案不仅是法治的试金石，更是反腐的放大镜。中纪委不能再拖，是时候出手了
2025年12月13日，年满八十的副省级退休老干部陈某明，以“诽谤”为由报案，称个别媒体侵犯其隐私。济南市舜玉路派出所出具了《行政案件立案告知书》。
报案一事由来，盖因2025年9月，青岛市黄岛区法院的一纸判决，将这位退休17年的高官推至公众视野——陈某明的“管家”李鹏，在长达两年半的时间里，利用工作便利，从陈某明及其女儿家中盗取茅台、五粮液等名酒并销赃，累计非法获利高达243.5226万元。
在此案进入二审环节，案情经媒体披露，老干部陈某明认为舆论侵犯其隐私，涉嫌“诽谤”。
如此巨额的名酒从何而来？为何假酒比例如此之高？针对已经公之于众的案情，中纪委应当立即出手了，要么还陈某明一个清白，要么让腐败分子接受惩罚。
案件始于2021年初。当时，李鹏应聘到陈某明女儿陈某家中工作，身兼司机、厨师、保姆数职，负责照顾陈某明的起居。
工作期间，李鹏逐渐获得了陈家的信任，被安排负责拿取、运送和保管家中酒水。
自2021年4月起，李鹏开始利用持有的钥匙和门禁卡，采取“蚂蚁搬家”的方式，多次从陈某位于青岛的住所及陈某明位于济南的住所盗窃名酒。
李鹏的盗窃行为持续了长达两年半时间，直到2023年10月，陈某在调取监控后发现端倪。
2023年10月16日晚，当李鹏驾车再次前往陈某明位于济南的家中作案时，被公安机关当场抓获。
警方从其汽车后备箱查获了尚未出手的茅台、五粮液等酒品，经物价鉴定，仅被查获的部分酒水价值就达14670元。
此案引人注目的另一细节，是涉案名酒存在极高的假冒比例。
根据检察机关在案件审理过程中提交的鉴定材料，贵州茅台酒股份有限公司对一批涉案茅台酒进行鉴定后证明，送检的44瓶茅台酒中，有42瓶并非该公司生产，属于假酒。
仅有两瓶十五年/五星茅台酒，确为茅台股份的产品。
五粮液集团有限公司的鉴定结果同样触目惊心：在送鉴的八瓶五粮液中，有四瓶属假冒产品，四瓶第七代五粮液酒和一瓶尊酒为该公司真品。
陈某明的女婿何某在案件审理过程中称，家中总计丢失了至少60箱茅台酒、两箱五粮液、20瓶红酒、5盒茶叶及一块卡地亚手表等贵重物品。
盗窃罪还是侵占罪？
尽管一审法院已作出判决，但案件在法律定性上仍存在争议。
李鹏及其家人认为，陈家人授权李鹏拿取、运送、保管家中酒水，李鹏趁机变卖牟利，应认定为侵占罪而非盗窃罪。
侵占罪与盗窃罪在法律上的区别显著：前者是将代为保管的他人财物非法占为己有，后者则是以非法占有为目的，秘密窃取他人财物。
侵占罪属轻罪，而盗窃罪则要严重得多。
李鹏的辩护人指出，李鹏明明可以在单独开车运酒时无人监管的情况下盗窃，没有必要冒险入室偷酒。既然被害人声称有监控，为何不提供监控记录。
然而，一审法院并未采纳这一辩护意见。
法院根据李鹏的供述、车辆出入记录、小区监控视频、陈家人的陈述等证据，认定陈家人没有授权李鹏代为保管酒水等物品，李鹏采用秘密窃取的方式盗窃，其行为构成盗窃罪。
青岛市黄岛区法院经审理认为，李鹏以非法占有为目的，多次采取秘密窃取的手段盗窃他人财物，数额特别巨大，其行为已构成盗窃罪。
2025年9月27日，法院作出一审判决：李鹏犯盗窃罪，判处有期徒刑十年六个月，并处罚金人民币二十万元。
案发后，李鹏家人曾主动退赔20万元。因对一审判决不服，已于2025年12月15日提起上诉。二审暂未开庭。
副省长以“诽谤”为由报案
当事人陈某明，1945年生，1987年起任县级市市长、市委书记、地委委员、行署副专员、地委副书记、行署专员、地委书记，1997年起相继任省长助理、副省长、省人大常委会副主任。2008年，63岁的陈某明从省人大常委会副主任的位置上卸任。
此案看似普通盗窃，却因陈某明的特殊身份及涉案物品的异常情况，至少存在三大疑问有待中纪委调查通报：
陈某明曾任副省长、省人大常委会副主任，属于中管干部。其家中囤积大量名酒，若系他人赠送，可能涉及受贿或违反中央八项规定精神。若这些酒系陈某明与女儿自购，则需提供购买记录以证清白。
假酒比例之高令人咋舌。若系购买，陈某明作为高级干部，买到大量假酒却未维权，不合常理；若系收礼，则送礼者“以假乱真”的行为可能涉及欺诈。茅台酒厂曾宣称假酒率不足1%，此案却显示高端市场假酒猖獗，监管部门需追溯假酒链条。
黄岛区法院判决仅追究管家盗窃责任，未对名酒来源开展调查。根据《刑法》，盗窃案需查明涉案物品性质，但判决书对赃物权属、真伪背景的回避，削弱了司法公信力。
随着案件细节在社交媒体上传播，陈某明于2025年12月13日以“诽谤”为由向公安机关报案，称舆论侵犯其隐私。公安机关已向其出具了《行政案件立案告知书》。
然而，根据《中国共产党纪律处分条例》，领导干部需接受舆论监督，尤其涉及公共利益时。陈某明未澄清名酒来源，反而起诉网民，被批“转移焦点”。
北京律师赵琮对此分析指出，自媒体从业人员如果只是对一审判决书内容进行摘取、分析和评价，没有捏造事实，其内容来自司法文书，则不构成法律上的诽谤。
此案已超出盗窃案范畴，涉及干部廉洁性、市场监管、司法公正三大问题。鉴于陈某明为中管干部，地方纪委监委无权调查，必须由中纪委直接介入。
一桩盗窃案，撕开了退休高官家中隐秘的角落。假酒与真权交织，此案不仅是法治的试金石，更是反腐的放大镜。中纪委不能再拖了，必须尽快启动调查，要么还陈某明一个清白，要么让腐败分子接受惩罚。㳒
© Eric Lee for The New York Times
© Matt Kelley/Associated Press
“天津一医院女护士被偷拍”的视频在网络传播，天津警方通报，已抓获涉案人员，是医院一名男护士。
据大风新闻报道，有博主星期三（12月17日）曝料称，天津某医院护士站更衣室被装摄像头，偷拍护士更衣，提醒医护人员要注意保护好自己的隐私。
这名博主称，12月9日，一不雅网站流出多段偷拍视频，摄像头疑似安装在桌子上，镜头高度与更衣室桌子齐平，画面中多名女性先后脱下便装，然后换上护士服，下班后又换回来，护士服上面写有某某医院四个字。
博主说，从护士服上面的医院名字分析，全国同名的医院共有四家，从视频里护士说话的口音判断，他最终确定该医院位于天津市西青区。
12月11日，博主向天津警方打电话报警，并称事后有民警联系他，告知他经调查，此事确实发生在那家医院。
天津公安西青分局星期五（19日）发布案件通报称，公安机关于星期四（18日）晚抓获23岁的刘姓涉案男子，为该医院护士。
警方称，刘姓男子对多次在护士办公室内实施偷拍行为并上传网络的事实供认不讳。目前，案件正在依法办理。
台北两处捷运站发生袭击事件致多人死伤。网络社群随后出现自称嫌犯“张文是我兄弟”的可疑账号，扬言下个目标是“高雄车站”，高雄警方加强巡逻监控，并追查发文者身份。
台北车站和捷运中山站星期五（12月19日）傍晚接连发生袭击事件，已造成四人死亡、六人轻重伤。27岁的嫌犯张文在行凶后跳楼，送医抢救无效身亡。
据台湾联合报、中时新闻网报道，案发后，社群网络Threads有署名“nvlw6wyef8rc5”的网友随即贴文，称“北捷事件主角张文是我兄弟，我们是一个组织”，扬言“他未完成的任务，我会继续接下去”，并宣告“下一个地点高雄车站”“社会病态交给我们来重整”。
贴文发出后陆续被网友截图转发，但账号和贴文在几分钟后一起被删文下架。高雄警方和铁路警察已介入调查，高雄市刑大科侦队漏夜追查发文者身份。
由于贴文者发文提到高雄火车站将成下一个目标，高雄警方派出保大霹雳小组、捷运警察和铁路警察加强巡视车站内有无可疑目标，警方荷枪实弹在车站巡逻。
警方称，星期六搭车人潮多，铁路警察将增派警力，捷警和保大也将增派警力在人潮密集处加强监控及巡视。
作品声明：个人观点、仅供参考
12月15日上午9:30，司法部在其官网通报了规范涉企行政执法专项行动的8个典型案例，分别涉及甘肃、湖南、黑龙江、江西、浙江、山西、山东、江苏8省。
值得注意的是，所有的通报只说了具体哪个省，具体到违法违纪的具体城市时，全部用了某字代替。
比如，湖南某县市场监管局16名行政执法人员因在执法中“吃拿卡要”、收受商户红包礼金的案例被公开通报，湖南被点名，具体的县用了“某县”。
根据司法部官方的通报：2025年4月说起，当地市场监管局开展专项行动自查时，主动向县政府行政执法监督局上报线索：2024年期间，局内部分执法人员在日常执法中，存在向管理服务对象索要、收受红包礼金的违规行为，涉及范围覆盖餐饮业、服务业、房地产业等多个领域，受害商户多为小微企业和个体工商户，不少商户因担心被刻意刁难，只能被迫配合送礼。接到上报后，县政府行政执法监督局迅速介入，先后向20余家相关商户核实情况，最终确认16名执法人员存在“吃拿卡要”问题属实。16名涉事人员被撤职或调离执法岗位，并且所有人限期退还违规收受的红包礼金。
对这样含混不清的通报，我个人表示强烈的反对。
首先，这都已经2025年了，从上到下都在高压反腐，抓的违法犯罪官员不计其数，被处分的违纪官员更是数不胜数，湖南的这个县的执法人员居然还敢向商户“吃拿卡要”，何其大胆、何其恶劣啊。这些人如此胆大包天，这样的地方、这些人理应点名道姓全部向社会公开曝光，让他们不仅承受法纪的处罚，还应接受社会舆论的谴责，让他们付出更为沉重的代价，才能实现有效的惩戒。
公布了具体县名，公众就会去关注这个县的市场监督管理局局长是谁、县长是谁、县委书记是谁，公众就会追问他们为什么当地到了2025年了还会出现执法人员吃拿卡要的事情，公众就会格外注意监督这些地方官员，这样才能给地方官有效的舆论压力，才能迫使他们加强对手下官员的约束，才能让他们时刻注意自己行使权力时是否越界了。
可是，司法部的通报居然没有点这个县的名。
其次，从传播的角度说，司法部既然是公开通报曝光这八个省存在的具体问题，公开省名是应该的，公布具体的问题发生在哪个县哪个市，也是应该的。现在只公布省名而不公布县名区名市名，在传播中信息很容易走形变样，很容易让受众误以为该省各县各区各市都如此，将全省抹黑、将全省污名化。
我如今居住在湖南，很在乎湖南的名声，所以还是以湖南为例。现在公开了湖南的某县存在执法人员吃拿卡要，我在向其他省的朋友介绍这个事情的时候，只能说湖南，而无法具体到县，虽然我也会强调是某个县，但因为县名不详，接受这个信息的外地人肯定只能记住湖南，等到他二次传播的时候，湖南会被再次强化，某县会再次被弱化，这是不是会让湖南全省给这个乱来的县背锅呢？
信息传播的过程中，信息会逐渐丢失和变形，省名你都点了，理应点具体的县名、区名、市名，才能在传播中尽量让信息少丢失少变形。
再比如，司法部的通报的第一例，甘肃某区城市管理局执法人员王某滥用其执法人员身份，要求某商户安装王某亲属代理的某品牌共享充电宝，涉嫌以权谋私，干预市场经营活动。点了甘肃的名，具体到区里，却含糊不清，这显然不是为了保护甘肃，而是为了保护这个区。
我想问问，为什么要保护这样的区？
这八个省出现这些问题，省里当然应该承担责任，但让省里全部扛下而保护这些违法违纪行为的具体地方，非常不妥。
正常的情况下，这类通报点名越具体详细越有惩戒效果，既要点省里的名，也要点具体的县市区的名，如今只点省名而不点具体县市区的名，这种做法不利于有效约束具体的权力，也不利于有效惩戒失范的具体权力。
在此，公开呼吁司法部重新发布该通报，不仅要具体点名那些违法执法的事情发生在哪个省，也要把违法执法的具体县市区的名点出来。
2025年12年16日
© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times
© U.S. Marine Corps
EPA/ShutterstockThe US says its military has carried out a "massive strike" against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Operation Hawkeye Strike was aimed at eliminating IS "fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites".
Fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery hit multiple targets in central Syria, US officials told CBS, the BBC's media partner in the US. Aircraft from Jordan were also involved.
President Donald Trump later said "we are striking very strongly" against IS strongholds, after the 13 December IS ambush in the city of Palmyra in which two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter were killed.
In a post on X late on Friday, Hegseth wrote: "This is not the beginning of a war - it is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America, under President Trump's leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.
"If you target Americans - anywhere in the world - you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.
"Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue," the US defence secretary added.
Meanwhile, the US Central Command (Centcom) said that "US forces have commenced a large-scale strike" against IS, adding that more information would be provided soon.
Posting on Truth Social later on, President Trump said the US "is inflicting very serious retaliation, just as I promised, on the murderous terrorists responsible".
He said the Syrian government was "fully in support".
Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OBHR) said IS positions near the cities of Raqqa and Deir ez Zor were targeted.
It said that a prominent IS leader and a number of fighters were killed.
IS has not publicly commented. The BBC was unable to verify the targets immediately.
Centcom, which directs American military operations in Europe, Africa and the Indo-Pacific, earlier said that the deadly attack in Palmyra was carried out by an IS gunman, who was "engaged and killed".
Another three US soldiers were injured in the ambush, with a Pentagon official saying that it happened "in an area where the Syrian president does not have control."
At the same time, the SOHR said the attacker was a member of the Syrian security forces.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the identity of the gunman has not been released.
In 2019, a US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced IS had lost the last pocket of territory in Syria it controlled, but since then the jihadist group has carried out some attacks.
The United Nations says the group still has between 5,000 and 7,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq.
US troops have maintained a presence in Syria since 2015 to help train other forces as part of a campaign against IS.
AFP via Getty ImagesTimothée Chalamet has finally quashed rumours that he is cult anonymous rapper EsDeeKid - by performing alongside him in a new video.
Speculation has run riot that the Oscar-nominated US actor has been leading a double life as the masked rapper, who only ever reveals his eyes.
Some followers spotted an apparent resemblance with Chalamet's eyes, and when the BBC questioned the star about the connection earlier this week, he responded: "No comment... You'll see, all in due time."
Now, the actor - who adopted the hip-hop moniker Lil Timmy Tim in high school - has scotched the conspiracies by posting a video of himself rapping alongside EsDeeKid on a remix of the musician's top 40 hit 4Raws.
In the music video, Chalamet appeared to refer to the rumours by starting with only his eyes on show, like the drill artist, before pulling down the bandana from his face and dropping the bars: "It's Timothée Chalamet chillin', tryin' to stack $100 million."
He then referenced his partner Kylie Jenner with the line: "Girl got $1 billion."
The clip was filmed at Andover Minimarket Off Licence in north London, and was reposted by EsDeeKid.
The speculation has been seized upon by fans in recent weeks, and both sides stayed silent as EsDeeKid reached the UK top 10 and Chalamet promoted his new film.
He even gave the title, Marty Supreme, several shout-outs in the new collaboration, building on an already savvy marketing campaign for the film.
But it was always far-fetched that the two people could be one and the same, and that Chalamet could have pulled off rapping with EsDeeKid's Liverpudlian accent.
Their collaboration quickly went viral, with British rapper Central Cee replying "Naaa" with crying and laughing emojis, Tinie Tempah posting "Hahha this is sickkk" and US star Shaboozey declaring "This going #1".
Additional reporting by Lola Schroer.
BBCThis article contains descriptions of sexual abuse and violence which some readers may find distressing.
Two Palestinian men have told the BBC they personally experienced the kind of beatings and sexual abuse highlighted in recent reports into the treatment of prisoners in Israeli detention.
The United Nations Committee against Torture said last month that it was deeply concerned about reports indicating "a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill treatment" of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. It said the allegations had "gravely intensified" after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Other reports by Israeli and Palestinian rights groups have detailed what they say is "systematic" abuse.
Israel has denied all the allegations, but rights groups say the fury in the country over the 7 October attacks and the treatment of Israeli hostages in Gaza has created a culture of impunity within the prison services, especially towards detainees who have expressed support for Hamas and its attacks.
Last year, leaked CCTV footage from inside an Israeli military prison showed a Palestinian man from Gaza allegedly being sexually abused by prison guards. That led to a resignation and recriminations at the top of Israel's military and political establishment.
Sami al-Saei, 46, now works in a furniture shop, but he used to be a freelance journalist in the town of Tulkarm, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
He was arrested by Israeli soldiers in January 2024 after working with reporters to arrange interviews with members of Hamas and other armed groups.
He was detained without being charged for 16 months, under a controversial Israeli system known as administrative detention, before being released this summer.
While he was being held in Megiddo prison in northern Israel, he said, the guards partially stripped him and raped him with a baton on or around 13 March 2024.
He said he had decided to speak to the BBC about his allegations of sexual abuse, despite the risk of being ostracised in the often conservative Palestinian society in the West Bank.
"There were five or six of them," he said.
"They were laughing and enjoying it. The guard asked me: 'Are you enjoying this? We want to play with you, and bring your wife, your sister, your mother, and friends here too,'" Mr al-Saei continued.
"I was hoping to die and be done from that, as the pain was not only caused by the rape, but also from the severe and painful beating."
He said the assault lasted around 15 to 20 minutes, during which time the guards also squeezed his genitals, causing extreme pain.
He said the beatings happened on an almost daily basis, but he was only sexually abused once.
The BBC asked the Israel Prison Service (IPS) for a response to Mr al-Saei's allegations. It sent a statement, which said: "We operate in full accordance with the law, while ensuring the safety, welfare, and rights of all inmates under its custody.
"We are not aware of the claims described, and to the best of our knowledge, no such incidents have occurred under IPS responsibility."
We also asked the IPS whether an investigation had been launched into the alleged sexual assault and whether any medical records existed. It did not comment.
IDF handoutAllegations of abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons have been made for decades, but one recent case has shaken the country's establishment and deepened a growing divide in Israeli society over the treatment of prisoners and detainees accused of supporting Hamas.
In August 2024, leaked CCTV from inside Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel showed a Palestinian detainee from Gaza allegedly being abused with a sharp object by soldiers, leaving the man with a pierced rectum. The assault allegedly happened in July 2024.
Five Israeli reservist soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to the detainee.
Last month, they convened a press conference on Israeli television, four of them appearing in black balaclavas to hide their identities.
In an interview with Channel 14 News, a fifth soldier pulled off his mask to reveal his face, saying he had nothing to hide.
All five have denied the charges.
The reservists held the press conference after it emerged that the CCTV footage was leaked by the Israeli military's top lawyer, Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi.
She resigned in October, saying that she took full responsibility for the leak. She explained that she had wanted to "counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities" – a reference to claims from some right-wing politicians that the allegations were fabricated.
Supporters of the far right have held protests in support of the five accused reservists outside Sde Teiman prison.
In July, before her resignation, at a fiery committee hearing at Israel's parliament, Hanoch Milwidsky, a politician from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, was challenged over whether raping a detainee was acceptable.
"Shut up, shut up," he shouted. "Yes, everything is legitimate if they are Nukhba [elite Hamas fighters who took part in the 7 October attacks]. Everything."
A recent opinion poll by the widely respected Israel Democracy Institute indicated that the majority of the Israeli public oppose investigating soldiers when they are suspected of having abused Palestinians from Gaza.
Ahmed, not his real name, lives in the West Bank with his wife and 11 children.
He was arrested by soldiers in January 2024 and was found guilty of incitement to terrorism, after making social media posts praising the 7 October Hamas-led attacks, in which around 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, were killed and a further 251 were taken hostage.
He was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 3,000 shekels ($935, £700).
He alleges serious sexual abuse while in Israeli detention.
"The prison guards, three of them, took me into a bathroom and stripped me completely naked before forcing me to the ground," Ahmed said in an interview at his home.
"They put my head in the toilet bowl and a massive man, maybe 150kg (330lb), stood on my head, so I was bent over. Then, I heard the voice of someone talking to the prison dog. The dog was named Messi, like the footballer."
He then detailed how he said the dog was used to sexually humiliate him. He said his trousers and underwear were removed and the dog mounted his back.
"I could feel its breath... then it jumped on me... I started to scream. The more I screamed, the more they beat me until I almost lost consciousness."
During his time in detention, Ahmed also said the guards would beat him on a regular basis, including on his genitals.
He said he was released 12 days after the alleged sexual abuse, after serving his full sentence.
We asked Ahmed if there were any medical documents regarding his claims, but he said he did not have any.
We contacted the IPS to ask for a response to Ahmed's allegations, and if an investigation had been launched into his alleged abuse, but we did not receive a reply.
There are over 9,000 Palestinian security detainees held in Israeli jails, nearly double the number before the 7 October attacks. Many have never been charged.
The recent report by the UN Committee against Torture unequivocally condemned the 7 October attacks, and also expressed deep concern over Israel's response and the huge loss of human life in Gaza.
Some of the hostages abducted on 7 October and survivors of the attacks have also made allegations of sexual abuse, rape and torture by Hamas and its allies.
Hamas has also publicly executed Palestinians in Gaza accused of collaborating with Israel.
There are also claims of abuse within prisons run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is in charge in parts of the West Bank not under Israeli control and is a political and military rival of Hamas.
The BBC has spoken to a former detainee who said PA security officers beat him and used electric shocks on him.
The BBC has contacted the PA for comment but received no reply. It has previously denied allegations of systematic abuse.
Getty ImagesIn a report submitted in October to the UN Committee against Torture, five Israeli human rights groups said there had been "a dramatic escalation in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment across all detention facilities, carried out with near total impunity and implemented as state policy targeting Palestinians".
Adalah, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Parents Against Child Detention, HaMoked, and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel presented evidence that they said showed Israel had "dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process - from arrest to imprisonment - targeting Palestinians under occupation and Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial and administrative mechanisms fail to intervene".
The report said such practices had resulted in a surge of Palestinian deaths in custody, with at least 94 deaths in Israeli custody documented between the start of the Gaza war and the end of August 2025.
Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva rejected the allegations made before the UN Committee against Torture as "disinformation".
Daniel Meron told the expert panel last month that Israel was "committed to upholding its obligations in line with our moral values and principles, even in the face of the challenges posed by a terrorist organisation".
He said the relevant Israeli agencies complied fully with the prohibition against torture and that Israel rejected allegations of systematic use of sexual and gender-based violence.
BBCThis article contains descriptions of sexual abuse and violence which some readers may find distressing.
Two Palestinian men have told the BBC they personally experienced the kind of beatings and sexual abuse highlighted in recent reports into the treatment of prisoners in Israeli detention.
The United Nations Committee against Torture said last month that it was deeply concerned about reports indicating "a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill treatment" of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. It said the allegations had "gravely intensified" after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Other reports by Israeli and Palestinian rights groups have detailed what they say is "systematic" abuse.
Israel has denied all the allegations, but rights groups say the fury in the country over the 7 October attacks and the treatment of Israeli hostages in Gaza has created a culture of impunity within the prison services, especially towards detainees who have expressed support for Hamas and its attacks.
Last year, leaked CCTV footage from inside an Israeli military prison showed a Palestinian man from Gaza allegedly being sexually abused by prison guards. That led to a resignation and recriminations at the top of Israel's military and political establishment.
Sami al-Saei, 46, now works in a furniture shop, but he used to be a freelance journalist in the town of Tulkarm, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
He was arrested by Israeli soldiers in January 2024 after working with reporters to arrange interviews with members of Hamas and other armed groups.
He was detained without being charged for 16 months, under a controversial Israeli system known as administrative detention, before being released this summer.
While he was being held in Megiddo prison in northern Israel, he said, the guards partially stripped him and raped him with a baton on or around 13 March 2024.
He said he had decided to speak to the BBC about his allegations of sexual abuse, despite the risk of being ostracised in the often conservative Palestinian society in the West Bank.
"There were five or six of them," he said.
"They were laughing and enjoying it. The guard asked me: 'Are you enjoying this? We want to play with you, and bring your wife, your sister, your mother, and friends here too,'" Mr al-Saei continued.
"I was hoping to die and be done from that, as the pain was not only caused by the rape, but also from the severe and painful beating."
He said the assault lasted around 15 to 20 minutes, during which time the guards also squeezed his genitals, causing extreme pain.
He said the beatings happened on an almost daily basis, but he was only sexually abused once.
The BBC asked the Israel Prison Service (IPS) for a response to Mr al-Saei's allegations. It sent a statement, which said: "We operate in full accordance with the law, while ensuring the safety, welfare, and rights of all inmates under its custody.
"We are not aware of the claims described, and to the best of our knowledge, no such incidents have occurred under IPS responsibility."
We also asked the IPS whether an investigation had been launched into the alleged sexual assault and whether any medical records existed. It did not comment.
IDF handoutAllegations of abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons have been made for decades, but one recent case has shaken the country's establishment and deepened a growing divide in Israeli society over the treatment of prisoners and detainees accused of supporting Hamas.
In August 2024, leaked CCTV from inside Sde Teiman military prison in southern Israel showed a Palestinian detainee from Gaza allegedly being abused with a sharp object by soldiers, leaving the man with a pierced rectum. The assault allegedly happened in July 2024.
Five Israeli reservist soldiers were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to the detainee.
Last month, they convened a press conference on Israeli television, four of them appearing in black balaclavas to hide their identities.
In an interview with Channel 14 News, a fifth soldier pulled off his mask to reveal his face, saying he had nothing to hide.
All five have denied the charges.
The reservists held the press conference after it emerged that the CCTV footage was leaked by the Israeli military's top lawyer, Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi.
She resigned in October, saying that she took full responsibility for the leak. She explained that she had wanted to "counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities" – a reference to claims from some right-wing politicians that the allegations were fabricated.
Supporters of the far right have held protests in support of the five accused reservists outside Sde Teiman prison.
In July, before her resignation, at a fiery committee hearing at Israel's parliament, Hanoch Milwidsky, a politician from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, was challenged over whether raping a detainee was acceptable.
"Shut up, shut up," he shouted. "Yes, everything is legitimate if they are Nukhba [elite Hamas fighters who took part in the 7 October attacks]. Everything."
A recent opinion poll by the widely respected Israel Democracy Institute indicated that the majority of the Israeli public oppose investigating soldiers when they are suspected of having abused Palestinians from Gaza.
Ahmed, not his real name, lives in the West Bank with his wife and 11 children.
He was arrested by soldiers in January 2024 and was found guilty of incitement to terrorism, after making social media posts praising the 7 October Hamas-led attacks, in which around 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, were killed and a further 251 were taken hostage.
He was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 3,000 shekels ($935, £700).
He alleges serious sexual abuse while in Israeli detention.
"The prison guards, three of them, took me into a bathroom and stripped me completely naked before forcing me to the ground," Ahmed said in an interview at his home.
"They put my head in the toilet bowl and a massive man, maybe 150kg (330lb), stood on my head, so I was bent over. Then, I heard the voice of someone talking to the prison dog. The dog was named Messi, like the footballer."
He then detailed how he said the dog was used to sexually humiliate him. He said his trousers and underwear were removed and the dog mounted his back.
"I could feel its breath... then it jumped on me... I started to scream. The more I screamed, the more they beat me until I almost lost consciousness."
During his time in detention, Ahmed also said the guards would beat him on a regular basis, including on his genitals.
He said he was released 12 days after the alleged sexual abuse, after serving his full sentence.
We asked Ahmed if there were any medical documents regarding his claims, but he said he did not have any.
We contacted the IPS to ask for a response to Ahmed's allegations, and if an investigation had been launched into his alleged abuse, but we did not receive a reply.
There are over 9,000 Palestinian security detainees held in Israeli jails, nearly double the number before the 7 October attacks. Many have never been charged.
The recent report by the UN Committee against Torture unequivocally condemned the 7 October attacks, and also expressed deep concern over Israel's response and the huge loss of human life in Gaza.
Some of the hostages abducted on 7 October and survivors of the attacks have also made allegations of sexual abuse, rape and torture by Hamas and its allies.
Hamas has also publicly executed Palestinians in Gaza accused of collaborating with Israel.
There are also claims of abuse within prisons run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is in charge in parts of the West Bank not under Israeli control and is a political and military rival of Hamas.
The BBC has spoken to a former detainee who said PA security officers beat him and used electric shocks on him.
The BBC has contacted the PA for comment but received no reply. It has previously denied allegations of systematic abuse.
Getty ImagesIn a report submitted in October to the UN Committee against Torture, five Israeli human rights groups said there had been "a dramatic escalation in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment across all detention facilities, carried out with near total impunity and implemented as state policy targeting Palestinians".
Adalah, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Parents Against Child Detention, HaMoked, and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel presented evidence that they said showed Israel had "dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process - from arrest to imprisonment - targeting Palestinians under occupation and Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial and administrative mechanisms fail to intervene".
The report said such practices had resulted in a surge of Palestinian deaths in custody, with at least 94 deaths in Israeli custody documented between the start of the Gaza war and the end of August 2025.
Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva rejected the allegations made before the UN Committee against Torture as "disinformation".
Daniel Meron told the expert panel last month that Israel was "committed to upholding its obligations in line with our moral values and principles, even in the face of the challenges posed by a terrorist organisation".
He said the relevant Israeli agencies complied fully with the prohibition against torture and that Israel rejected allegations of systematic use of sexual and gender-based violence.
Getty ImagesThe ousted chair of Ben & Jerry's has accused the company which owns the brand of threatening to launch a public smear campaign against her.
Anuradha Mittal, who chaired Ben & Jerry's independent board for seven years, told the BBC that Magnum had threatened to publish "defamatory statements" about her if she did not step down from her role.
It relates to an increasingly bitter dispute between the Vermont-based activist ice cream maker and its owner over the independence of the board and its freedom to pursue its social missions.
Magnum said in its view Mittal "no longer met the criteria to serve" on the board, following an investigation it had commissioned by external advisors.
In a statement on Monday, Magnum outlined changes to the way the board operates including a nine-year limit for people serving on it.
As well as Mittal, who said she had received a letter telling her she had been removed from the board, two other board members will be required to leave as a result.
It also said that an audit of the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, a charitable organisation, had "identified a series of material deficiencies in financial controls, governance and other compliance policies, including conflicts of interest".
Speaking to the BBC's World Business Report, Mittal said there had been an escalation of the friction between Ben & Jerry's board and its owner, over the brand's independence, social mission and integrity.
"For several years now, we have been resisting their overreach, including their efforts to muzzle us from speaking out for human rights, for peace," she said.
The brand, which is also known for the playful puns in its flavour names, was owned by Unilever until earlier this month, when the household goods giant spun off its ice cream unit to create, Magnum Ice Cream Company.
Ben & Jerry's was sold to Unilever in 2000 in a deal which allowed it to retain an independent board and the right to make decisions about its social mission.
This was a frequent source of friction while owned by Unilever.
In 2021, Ben & Jerry's refused to sell its products in areas occupied by Israel, resulting in its Israeli operation being sold by Unilever to a local licensee, and in October, Ben Cohen said it was prevented from launching an ice cream which expressed "solidarity with Palestine".
This row has now been inherited by Magnum, culminating in this week's stand-off, and Mittal's removal.
"This October, Unilever-Magnum executives threatened me with defamatory statements in their forthcoming prospectus if I did not resign," Mittal said.
"At the same time, they offered me a prominent role in a multimillion dollar Unilever-funded non-profit if I gave in," she added.
She said she had turned down that "inappropriate" offer.
Magnum is now the world's largest ice cream maker, with its brands include Cornetto, Wall's and Carte D'Or.
Mittal, founder of the Oakland Institute, a human rights and development focused think tank in California, described Magnum's approach as a "public smear campaign" and said the allegations were unfounded.
One of the firm's original founders Jerry Greenfield left the firm in September saying he felt its social mission was being stifled. The other, Ben Cohen, has also hit out at Magnum saying it was "not fit" to own the firm.
In a statement a spokesperson for Magnum said the steps it had taken were aimed at strengthening corporate governance and to "reaffirm the responsibilities of the Board of Ben & Jerry's".
"These actions aim to preserve and enhance the brand's historical social mission and safeguard its essential integrity," a spokesperson said.
When Ben & Jerry's was created in 1978 it made its mark selling flavours such as Cherry Garcia named after the guitarist from rock band Grateful Dead, Bohemian Raspberry, a play on the Queen track, and the now discontinued Vermonty Python.
Magnum said in its statement: "We remain unequivocally committed to Ben & Jerry's three-part mission – product, economic and social – and its progressive, non-partisan values.
"Ben & Jerry's continues to advocate for a range of causes and be a bold voice for social justice, as a glance at its social media channels demonstrates."
US Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe US justice department has launched a civil legal case against a man accused of being a Bosnian war criminal to revoke his citizenship.
Kemal Mrndzic did not disclose during his US immigration process that he served as a guard at Bosnia's notorious Celebici prison camp, where atrocities were committed, the department said.
A UN war crimes tribunal found that people held in the camp during the Bosnian war were killed, tortured, sexually assaulted, beaten and subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment.
US President Donald Trump's administration would not allow people who "persecute others" to "reap the benefits of refuge in the US", justice department official Brett Shumate said.
The assistant attorney general added that the legal case showed the value that the US government placed on "the integrity of its naturalisation process".
Mrndzic was found guilty by a jury in October 2024 on several counts of criminal fraud and misrepresentation in relation to his successful application for a US passport and naturalisation certificate.
He failed to disclose to immigration authorities the nature and timing of his military service, or that "he persecuted Bosnian-Serb inmates as a prison guard", the justice department said.
Mrndzic was sentenced in January 2025 to more than five years in prison.
US Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe Bosnian war followed the break-up of Soviet Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and led to the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995.
Srebrenica, recognised by the UN as a genocide, became known as Europe's worst mass atrocity since World War Two, after Bosnian-Serb forces systematically murdered more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.
The Celebici prison camp was operated by Bosniak and Bosnian-Croat forces, who were also responsible for widespread killings in areas they controlled.
Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was tried for war crimes and genocide, and the massacre led to the US-brokered Dayton Peace Agreement on 14 December 1995.
© Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
© Eric Lee for The New York Times
© Dave Sanders for The New York Times
© Dave Sanders for The New York Times
© Heather Khalifa for The New York Times
© Thomas McDonald for The New York Times
Login