NEW YORK Amnesty International (AI) yesterday released a report documenting crimes against humanity committed against tens of thousands of people in prisons in Syria, controlled by the US government.
the report exposes the mistreatment of prisoners in Syria; He estimated that at least 17 thousand 723 people have been killed in detention centers since the start of the war in the nation, in March 2011, equivalent to an average of 300 people per month.
Titled “Torture, disease and death in Syria’s prisons” (torture, disease and death in prisons in Syria), the report is based on testimonies of 65 survivors describing the abuse and inhumane conditions within agencies of Syrian intelligence and military prison Saydnaya.
most of these survivors said they saw people die in custody, and some said they had been held in cells with corpses.
“We were treated like animals. They wanted to become people of the most inhumane, “said AI a former prisoner named Samer.
The former prisoners said they had been victims of torture methods such as severe beatings, rape, electric shock and extraction fingernails and feet. Others said they had been scalded with boiling water and burned with cigarettes.
The director of AI’s Middle East and North Africa, Philip Luther, said the Syrian government has decades using torture as a means to crush their opponents and that currently applies in the context of a widespread and systematic attack against anyone suspected of opposition to the government on civilians. The expert added that such treatment constitutes “a crime against humanity. Must bring to justice those responsible for these heinous crimes. “
He called on the international community, including Russia and the United States co-chaired the peace talks on Syria to give maximum priority to stop these abuses in their negotiations with the authorities and with armed groups.
AI also called for all prisoners of conscience are released, that those detainees who will not be tried promptly be released and that immediate and unrestricted access for independent monitors to all places of detention access is allowed.
the report noted that the Group data Analysis Human Rights (HRDAG) estimated that in Syria killed custody 17 000 723 people between March 2011 and December 2015, although the real figure is probably higher. In detention centers people die of starvation; plus detainees do not receive the attention of the most basic health, and die from infected cuts and ingrown toenails, according to the document.
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