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Syrian prison hanged 13,000 inmates: Amnesty - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, accusing the government of a "policy of extermination".Titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison," Amnesty's damning report is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, including guards, detainees, and judges.
  • victims are overwhelmingly ordinary civilians who are thought to oppose the government.
  • "They kept them (hanging) there for 10 to 15 minutes," a former judge who witnessed the executions said."For the young ones, their weight wouldn't kill them. The officers' assistants would pull them down and break their necks," he said.
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  • Amnesty accused the Syrian government of carrying out a "policy of extermination" there by repeatedly torturing detainees and withholding food, water, and medical care.Prisoners were raped or forced to rape each other, and guards would feed detainees by tossing meals onto the cell floor, which was often covered in dirt and blood.
  • The group has previously said that more than 17,700 people were estimated to have died in government custody across Syria since the country's conflict erupted in March 2011.
  • According to the report, between 5,000 and13,000 inmates died in Saydnaya alone
  • "The cold-blooded killing of thousands of defenceless prisoners, along with the carefully crafted and systematic programmes of psychological and physical torture that are in place inside Saydnaya Prison cannot be allowed to continue," she said. A probe by the United Nations last year accused Assad's government of a policy of "extermination" in its jails. 
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Syrian Kurdish journalist killed in Turkish airstrike on civilian convoy - Committee to... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 14 Oct 19 - No Cached
  • The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the Turkish air strike on a civilian convoy that killed journalist Saad Ahmed and injured at least four other reporters.
  • According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five other civilians were killed in the strike.
  • Assad’s government has been responsible for the deaths of numerous journalists by torture, missile strikes, and targeted assassinations, according to CPJ reporting. Turkey is the world’s worst jailer of journalists, according to CPJ’s 2018 prison census.
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