Updated August 18, 2016 at 07:00 pm
More than 17,700 prisoners have died in five years of war
Beirut
Electrocution, burns with boiling water, rape: the Syrian regime has resorted to torture “large-scale” in its prisons, where more than 17,700 inmates have died in five years of war, denounced Thursday Amnesty International, which denounced “cruel in its basest form.”
“We were treated like animals. I saw blood running, like a river, “said Samer, a lawyer, referring to his guards during his detention.
your testimony is one of the 65 stories gathered by the Onge of exdetenidos who were in the prisons of information services regime and the military criminal Saydnaya, near Damascus.
acts of torture were there “widespread and systematic against all civilians suspected of opposing the regime, “he added in the Amnesty International report, which denounced” crimes against humanity “.
at least 17,723 prisoners died in detention since the beginning of the war in March 2011, more than 300 monthly deaths average, according to the London-based organization, which points out that the statistics are much higher and cites tens of thousands of forced disappearances.
Many prisoners were released after the various amnesties by the regime in recent years, after prisoner exchanges or after processes, and are at unspecified locations.
ritual claims. the former prisoners told ritual sinister Amnesty, especially the “welcoming party”, in which new detainees a rain of blows struck with iron bars, plastic or lead . with electric cables
Other torture:. electric shock, burning with boiling water and rape
Omar S. reported that a guard forced two men to strip naked and ordered one violated the other threatening them with death if they did not obey.
said, an anti-regime activist, said he was outraged before his father with the help of “an electric baton” while hanging on one arm and blindfolded.
most victims of exactions “told that saw people die in detention, and some said that took corpses in their cells, “according to NGOs defending human rights
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a exdetenido” that one day ventilation he stopped working and seven people died suffocated “in centers overcrowded detention, according to Amnesty.
” the systematic and deliberate nature of torture and ill-treatment in prison Saydnaya testifies cruel in its vilest form and a flagrant lack of humanity, “said Philip Luther, director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa.
in Saydnaya, where the winter is very cold, detainees are weeks in underground cells without blankets, according to the report.
Probation Work asserted that they ate bones of olive and orange peels to not starve.
Salam, a lawyer of Aleppo held for two years in Saydnaya he said that “some guards beat to death a coach kung fu and five other detainees. Then they gave paths beaten 14 others, all of them died within a week. Saw blood running from his cell “.
The NGO, which denounced a” unfair trials “, also noted” insufficient food, limited medical care, lack of sanitary facilities adapted “in the prisons, “inhuman and cruel treatment.”
the war in Syria broke out in March 2011 by the repression of pro-democracy demonstrations, has caused more than 290,000 dead.
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