Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent

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Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent


Memos sent to Syria’s head of military intelligence reporting the deaths of detainees in custody. Some information was blacked out to protect the integrity of evidence for possible prosecutions.CreditCreditCommission for International Justice and Accountability

By Anne Barnard

    May 11, 2019

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syrian security officers hung Muhannad Ghabbash from his wrists for hours, beat him bloody, shocked him with electricity and stuck a gun in his mouth.

Mr. Ghabbash, a law student from Aleppo, repeatedly confessed his actual offense: organizing peaceful antigovernment protests. But the torture continued for 12 days, until he wrote a fictional confession to planning a bombing.

That, he said, was just the beginning.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html

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