The report was made, among others, based on interviews with 65 survivors of torture in Syrian prisons – explains AI, while urging the international community to put pressure on the regime in Damascus. The Syrian government has in the past repeatedly rejected accusations of torture of prisoners.
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According to AI since March 2011, when the uprising against the governments of President Bashar al-Assad, to December 2015 in Syrian prisons deaths of more than 17.7 thousand . people. Amnesty points out that due to the fact that a day were killed there 10 people a month more than 300.
“They wanted to deprive us of our human qualities”
From the witnesses that soon after arriving in prison inmates participated in the so-called. welcome party, which consisted of beatings by guards. While women were often raped during the “security check”. – They treated us like animals. They wanted to deprive us of our human qualities – said one of the witnesses cited in the report AI.
Amnesty stresses that the issue should be addressed by the international community. Particular responsibility for stopping the regime in Damascus lies with the United States and Russia, which play a key role in the peace negotiations in order to resolve the Syrian conflict – says AI.
In Syria, since 2011 there is a war, which killed more than 280 thousand. people; more than half of the population was forced to leave their homes.
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