Daily Alert Archive

August 18, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.voanews.com/a/seventeen-thousand-killed-syrian-prisons-torture-amnesty-international-report/3469986.html

17,000 Killed in Syrian Prisons since 2011, Says Amnesty International

(VOA News) Edward Yeranian - A new Amnesty International report based on the recollections of 65 torture survivors details allegations of systematic torture of political prisoners and accuses the Syrian government of killing more than 17,000 people held in custody from 2011 to 2015. The "catalog of horror stories" included in the report "depicts in gruesome detail the dreadful abuse detainees routinely suffer...in Syria's notorious intelligence facilities," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's director for the Middle East and North Africa.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive