Revealing the Scale and Horror of Assad’s Torture Chambers: A Brief on the Locations and Conditions
Press Release
Revealing the Scale and Horror of Assad’s Torture Chambers:
An Avaaz Report on the Locations and Conditions of Syria’s Detention Facilities
On Thursday, 12 January, the global campaigning organisation Avaaz published a brief on
the horror and scale of the Syrian regime’s detention facilities, as the Arab League observers
continue their mission inside the country.
Bashar al-Assad’s security forces are detaining and in most cases torturing Syrian citizens
opposed to the regime in overcrowded prisons, jails and illegal detention centres across the
country. Avaaz has compiled the locations of these dungeons -- which even include schools
-- and the names of regime loyalists running the facilities and the torturers-in-chief setting
detention policy at the highest levels.
Human rights activists working with Avaaz across Syria have catalogued first-hand accounts of
horrific torments and conditions suffered by peaceful protesters and ordinary Syrians caught up
in the brutal crackdown, rotting inside the Assad regime’s notorious jails and prisons.
More than 617 people have been confirmed killed under torture by regime forces since the
crackdown started on March 15 of last year. Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on Syria’s popular
uprising has claimed at least 6,874 victims and seen a further 69,000 people detained over the
course of the last nine months.
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