Syria’s Gulags -- Ana Maria Luca & Luna Safwan, NOW
Experts and former detainees respond to a recent report detailing systematic torture in Syrian prisons.
Ahmad, 28, was arrested on April 17, 2013 in Kafarsousa, Damascus and was tortured for three months before his release. As part of the Local Coordination Committee, the young man was in charge of a warehouse where he prepared emergency kits that the two doctors he worked with used to tend to wounded people in the region.
The intelligence agents discovered their operation after a fellow aid worker was caught and tortured until he gave up the names and locations. Ahmad knew that the Air Force Intelligence, Syria’s most feared intelligence service, would be raiding the warehouse soon, but they didn’t have time to hide all the medical aid. “We got arrested almost immediately,” he says.
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My Comment: This is what happens when a country is no longer is governed by the rule of law or by some semblance of it .... mass detentions and summary punishments. More details on how the Syrian regime's prison system operates can be read here.
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