I wonder if those pictures of people tortured in Syrian jails are still hanging in the halls of the U.N.
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Torture and 17,000 deaths in Syrian jails
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Friday, August 19, 2016
More than 17,000 people have died in Syrian government detention facilities since the start of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International has said.
The international human rights group said in a new report that many other people have been tortured.
A catalogue of evidence reveals 19 prisoners were beaten to death after guards found one teaching martial arts skills; prisoners suffocated in overcrowded cells; inmates had their fingernails and toenails pulled out; and guards used a variety of torture methods during interrogations, including forcing male prisoners to rape each other or risk being shot dead.
Amnesty International estimates that more than 17,723 people died in custody in Syria between March 2011 and the end of 2015.
“With tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in detention facilities across Syria, the real figure is likely to be even higher,” the report said.
It said common methods of torture included forcibly contorting the victim’s body into a tyre and flogging on the soles of the feet.
The authorities also used electric shocks, rape and sexual violence, the pulling out of fingernails or toenails, scalding with hot water and cigarette burns.
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Torture and 17,000 deaths in Syrian jails
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Friday, August 19, 2016
More than 17,000 people have died in Syrian government detention facilities since the start of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International has said.
The international human rights group said in a new report that many other people have been tortured.
A catalogue of evidence reveals 19 prisoners were beaten to death after guards found one teaching martial arts skills; prisoners suffocated in overcrowded cells; inmates had their fingernails and toenails pulled out; and guards used a variety of torture methods during interrogations, including forcing male prisoners to rape each other or risk being shot dead.
Amnesty International estimates that more than 17,723 people died in custody in Syria between March 2011 and the end of 2015.
“With tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in detention facilities across Syria, the real figure is likely to be even higher,” the report said.
It said common methods of torture included forcibly contorting the victim’s body into a tyre and flogging on the soles of the feet.
The authorities also used electric shocks, rape and sexual violence, the pulling out of fingernails or toenails, scalding with hot water and cigarette burns.
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Torture and 17,000 deaths in Syrian jails
