Dorothy Parvaz: Inside Syria's Secret Prisons -- Al Jazeera
'We could clearly hear the interrogator pummelling his fists into his subject,' writes our correspondent.
I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me. Only one of them - who I came to know as Mr Shut Up during my three days in a detention center, where so many Syrians 'disappeared' are being kept - spoke English.
Watching them searching my bags, and observing the set of handcuffs hanging from the bunk bed wedged behind the desk in the middle of the room, I guessed that I was being arrested - or, at the very least, processed for detention.
"Why are doing this?" I asked.
"Shut up! SHUT UP!" said Mr Shut Up.
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My Comment: The above Al Jazeera story on life in Syria's prisons is riveting .... read it all.
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