August 18, 2016
- Report based on interviews with 65 "torture survivors", details systematic use of rape and beatings by prison guards.
- More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria, with a further 11 million people displaced by the conflict, according to the UN.
- The report estimates that 17,723 people died in custody across Syria between March 2011, when the uprising against President Bashar Assad began, and December 2015 - equivalent to about 10 people each day or more than 300 a month.
- A new report by the charity, based on interviews with 65 "torture survivors", details systematic use of rape and beatings by prison guards.
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- His name is Omran Daqneesh. The image of him, bloodied and covered with dust, sitting silently in an ambulance awaiting help, is another stark reminder of the toll of the war in Syria.He is young -- one witness puts him at five years old, as old as the Syrian war itself. But his chubby arms and legs and the way he clings to the man who pulled him from the rubble of his bombed-out home suggest he is younger, maybe still a toddler. Little boy in Aleppo a vivid reminder of war's horror, CNN August 18, 2016
Amnesty International Actions & Video:
- Syrian Refugee Activist Toolkit, Amnesty International USA
- Canada: A Leader for Refugees, Amnesty International Canada
- End the horror in Syria's torture prisons, Amnesty International
- Inside Saydnaya: Syria's Torture Prison, VIDEO (10 min)
