Amnesty International releases their latest report on Syrian prisons (TRIGGER WARNING)

[Blue_Tires]

Last edited Fri Aug 19, 2016, 09:01 AM - Edit history (1)

@Amnesty documents *absolute minimum* 17,723 people murdered in #Assad's custody: "anyone who could be perceived to be opposing the gov't".

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/08/harrowing-accounts-of-torture-inhuman-conditions-and-mass-deaths-in-syrias-prisons/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/08/syria-torture-prisons/


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https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/4508/2016/en/

[Blue_Tires]

1. Friday kick

Damn folks, I know it isn't Lochte-related, but come on now...

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. K&R.

[think]

3. Kick & Rec for exposure /nt

[cali]

4. I'm posting in your thread because I do think it's worthy of "more eyes"

As YOU know, I've been posting about the horrors in Syria extensively.

It is a tragedy so enormous, with war crimes of horrific dimension that the least we can do is not look away.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Thanks for the kick

Hopefully more global attention will be paid to exactly what kind of person Moscow and Tehran are propping up there...

[cali]

5. Just the fact that 17,000 people have perished in Syrian prisons since the start of the war

is horrific.

Video at link:

newsweek.com/syrian-prison-custody-death-amnesty-491226

[NCTraveler]

6. Kick. nt.

[pampango]

8. Assad is a terrorist. He is just a different kind of terrorist than th ISIS variety. n/t