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How Syrian prisoners spend their ‘break’ between torture sessions

On the International Day Against Torture, 25 volunteers staged a powerful reconstruction of a ‘break’ in a Syrian regime prison, i.e. the time that prisoners spend waiting to be called up for another torture session. The clip does not show actual torture or other horrors prisoners experience. […]

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When prisoners of conscience are used in political games

When prisoners of conscience are used in political games

Evin prisoners brutally assaulted by intelligence officers to put pressure on Rouhani Iranian opposition media reported on 17 April 2014 that a number of political prisoners held in Tehran’s Evin prison had been violently attacked by the prison ‘inspectors’. While the assault itself should obviously be condemned […]

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Latest News from Syria – 19 March 2014

– 150 Palestinians died under torture in Syrian regime prisons – Syrian regime seizes assets of 58 dissident celebrities 150 PALESTINIANS DIED UNDER TORTURE IN SYRIAN REGIME PRISONS The number of Syrian-Palestinians who have died under torture in Syrian regime prisons since the start of the Syrian […]

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Syrian soldiers captured by the opposition wish they were Iranian

A video posted by Syrian activists on Youtube shows a group of Syrian pro-regime prisoners of war wishing that they were Iranian or Hezbollah Lebanon fighters so that the Assad regime would hurry to negotiate their release in exchange for activists incarcerated in its prisons.[1] The 20 […]

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New evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Syrian regime

Are Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon complicit in these crimes? New evidence has surfaced of “systematic torture and mass killing” of Syrian dissidents “on an industrial scale” by Syrian regime forces. A man who used to work as a photographer with the Syrian military police and was […]

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Summary killings in secret ISIS detention centres

Amnesty International has published a briefing on the “torture, flogging and summary killings … in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS)”, an armed group linked to Al-Qaeda that controls some areas in northern Syria. Amnesty identifies seven detention facilities used by […]

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Syria’s not-so-secret crimes against humanity

A new report by an independent United Nations panel investigating human rights violations in Syria has concluded that enforced disappearances and secret detention committed by the Syrian regime forces are “part of widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population amounting to a crime against humanity.” The […]

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Latest News from Syria – 19 December 2013

– Western powers want Assad to stay – Palestinian actor dies in Syrian regime prisons WESTERN POWERS WANT ASSAD TO STAY According to Reuters, Western powers have signalled to the Syrian opposition that the long-awaited Geneva 2 ‘peace talks’ next month “may not lead to the removal […]

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