"“During one of those sessions a guy had his ribs broken in front of me. Another had his back broken . . . a young man from Homs was beaten with metal pipes. His neck was broken and he died on the spot.”
This testimony from a teenaged prisoner named Karim, held for 25 days in a Syrian prison, illustrates a campaign of “systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment in detention,” says a chilling report released Wednesday by Amnesty International, a day before the one-year anniversary of the protests.
Based on dozens of interviews with survivors, it details 31 kinds of torture it says have become routine for Syrian detainees — including beatings with instruments from whips to braided cables, shackling in positions that cause permanent damage, electric shocks, tearing of flesh with pincers, and sexual violence." (thanks Phil)
This testimony from a teenaged prisoner named Karim, held for 25 days in a Syrian prison, illustrates a campaign of “systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment in detention,” says a chilling report released Wednesday by Amnesty International, a day before the one-year anniversary of the protests.
Based on dozens of interviews with survivors, it details 31 kinds of torture it says have become routine for Syrian detainees — including beatings with instruments from whips to braided cables, shackling in positions that cause permanent damage, electric shocks, tearing of flesh with pincers, and sexual violence." (thanks Phil)
