Report by Türkiye-based rights group details 'brutal torture' on detainees, including physical and psychological violence, at Tishreen hospital jail.
Report by Türkiye-based rights group details "brutal torture" on detainees, including physical and psychological violence, at Tishreen hospital jail.Syrians rally in the northern city of Azaz on August 25, 2023 in support of anti-government protests in the southern city of Sweida. Photo: AFP
It covers abuses from the start of Syria's civil war in 2011 to 2020, but the authors said they believe many of the practices persist today. In a report last year the group described Sednaya's"salt rooms," primitive mortuaries designed to preserve bodies. Up to one-fifth of that toll died in government-run prisons, according to Britain-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Abu Hamza said he was made to toil for hours, barefoot and in the bitter cold, loading bodies into a vehicle at Sednaya prison and then offloading them at Tishreen hospital near its jail.
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