WORLD_ Protesters Describe Torture by Syrian Security Forces

July 3, 2012, 2:31 pm2
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Protesters Describe Torture by Syrian Security Forces

By ROBERT MACKEY The New York Times

As my colleagues Alan Cowell and Sebnem Arsu explain, Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian authorities of the systematic torture of opposition activists in a new report released on Tuesday.

The rights group also posted excerpts from four video interviews online, in which former detainees, one of them a 14-year-old boy, described the abuse they said they were subjected to by the security forces.

Read more: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/protesters-describe-torture-by-syrian-security-forces/

A Human Rights Watch video report with the testimonies of former detainees who said they were tortured by the Syrian security forces.
The report — which was also made available in Russian, to address a nation that has offered crucial support to Mr. Assad — includes a map showing the locations of 27 government detention centers where torture was reported by former prisoners and the names of officials said to be in charge of many of the facilities.


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JW  Amherst, Ma

very few of the torturers act out of political conviction or motivation,but much likelier because they are mentally unbalanced and not really what we call human. Of course, they are not alone on this planet. July 5, 2012 at 2:40 a.m



Pedro da Cunha    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I recall that the US sent, under the Rendition program, an alledged terrorist (who turned out to be inocent) to Syrian torture chambers. How come only now these torture factories have come to light? I hope the US returns to the high moral ground it had, for a longtime, occupied. July 4, 2012 at 11:57 p.m




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