Thursday, 17 December 2015

Controversial Cybersecurity Act Slipped Into ‘Omnibus’ Budget Bill

A new report from Human Rights Watch details the conditions in Syrian prisons under President Bashar al-Assad.

By Jake Godin | December 16, 2015

“At least in an attack, a rocket comes, and you die. You’re not tortured. Detainees die a hundred deaths a day,” a former detainee told Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Watch has released a report detailing the torture and deaths of those in Syrian government custody.

It’s … graphic. That’s because it uses torture photos leaked by a man known only as Caesar.

Caesar, previously a military photographer for the regime, leaked more than 50,000 photographs. A little over half were of people who died while they were detained by the government.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad brushed aside the authenticity of the photos in a January interview with Foreign Policy. For the full article click here



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