[DemolitionRed]

http://time.com/4662100/syria-prison...international/
(BEIRUT) — Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as "the slaughterhouse," Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday.
It covers the period from 2011 to 2015, when Amnesty said 20-50 people were hanged each week at Saydnaya Prison in killings authorized by senior Syrian officials, including deputies of President Bashar Assad, and carried out by military police.

Other rights groups have found evidence of massive torture leading to death in Syrian detention facilities. In a report last year, Amnesty found that more than 17,000 people have died of torture and ill-treatment in custody across Syria since 2011, an average rate of more than 300 deaths a month.

I think sometimes there is a tendency not to post news items like this because (1) There is nothing much we can add to it and (2) What can we even say about it?

I think it's important to post stuff like this when we find it, even if nobody had anything to say in comment, and it is hard to know what to say, it's good to remind ourselves of what is out there.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yes I heard the head of Amnesty talk about it at length yesterday on the excellent Ian Dale afternoon show. Its a lot grimmer than even the stats above suggest. you can listen again here:

http://lbc.audioagain.com/presenters...the-whole-show

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes I heard the head of Amnesty talk about it at length yesterday on the excellent Ian Dale afternoon show. Its a lot grimmer than even the stats above suggest. you can listen again here:

http://lbc.audioagain.com/presenters...the-whole-show

Thanks TS

"The report referred to the killings as a "calculated campaign of extrajudicial execution."

"Amnesty has recorded at least 35 different methods of torture in Syria since the late 1980s, practices that only increased since 2011, said Lynn Maalouf, deputy director for research at Amnesty's regional office in Beirut."

and

"Those figures are comparable to battlefield deaths in Aleppo, one of the fiercest war zones in Syria, where 21,000 were killed in the province since 2011."

Depressing stuff.

[Northern Monkey]

It's horrific and it's unfortunately too late to do anything about it since Assad has Russia protecting him now.