Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Human Rights Watch: There Are 27 Torture Centers In Syria



'We Took Their Fingernails Out With Pliers And We Made Them Eat Them. We Made Them Suck Their Own Blood Off The floor': Inside Syria’s '27 Torture Centres' -- Daily Mail

* Human Rights Watch report released as Syrian President Bashar Assad says he regrets the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces last month
* Group says tens of thousands of people had been detained across Syria by intelligence agencies
* Detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, claims the report
* 'The reach and inhumanity of this network of torture centres are truly horrific,' says Human Rights Watch researcher

Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centres across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, a report released today has said.

Human Rights Watch identified 27 detention centres that it says intelligence agencies have been using since President Bashar al-Assad's government began a crackdown in March 2011 on pro-democracy protesters trying to oust him.

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More News On Syria's Torture Centers

Syria: Torture Centers Revealed -- Human Rights Watch

Report identifies Syria's "torture centres" -- Al Jazeera
Report: Syria tortures dissidents in 'archipelago' of prisons -- Christian Science Monitor
Report describes brutal torture in Syria -- CNN
Syria torture accounts reinforce human rights concerns -- BBC
Syria running 'torture archipelago': rights group -- AFP
HRW: Syria set up 'torture center' system -- UPI
Syria running torture centre network - rights group -- Reuters
Syrian detainees reveal 'torture centres' -- CBC
Inside Syria’s medieval torture HELL: ‘Stun guns to genitals...beaten with metal whips’ - Human Rights Watch -- New York Daily News
Rights group: Syria's 20 ways to torture prove its crimes against humanity -- MSNBC

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