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Syria carried out mass hangings at military prison: Amnesty International

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20 to 50 people are hung at one time, according to the report CREDIT: ALLAN SWART / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
20 to 50 people are hung at one time, according to the report CREDIT: ALLAN SWART / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

The Syrian government has executed thousands of prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Amnesty said the executions took place between 2011 and 2015, but were probably still being carried out and amounted to war crimes. It called for a U.N. investigation.

Syria’s government and President Bashar al-Assad have rejected similar reports in the past of torture and extrajudicial killings in a civil war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

The Amnesty report said an average of 20-50 people were hanged each week at the Sednaya military prison north of Damascus. Between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Sednaya in the four years after Syria’s popular uprising descended into civil war, it said.

“The victims are overwhelmingly civilians who are thought to oppose the government,” the report said.

“Many other detainees at Sednaya Military Prison have been killed after being repeatedly tortured and systematically deprived of food, water, medicine and medical care.”

A view of the notorious Saydnaya prison from above (Photo: Amnesty International)
A view of the notorious Saydnaya prison from above (Photo: Amnesty International)

The prisoners, who included former military personnel suspected of disloyalty and people involved in unrest, underwent sham trials before military courts and were sometimes forced to make confessions under torture, Amnesty said.

The executions were carried out secretly and those killed were buried at mass graves outside the capital, with families not informed of their fate, it said.

The report was based on interviews with 84 witnesses including former guards and officials, detainees, judges and lawyers, as well as experts on detention in Syria.

“The Syrian state’s backers, in particular Russia, with its permanent seat on the Security Council, and Iran, must condemn the extrajudicial executions and extermination policies of the Syrian state and do what is in their power to bring them to an end,” Amnesty said.

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13 responses to “Syria carried out mass hangings at military prison: Amnesty International”

  1. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Amnesty International says that Syria carried out mass hangings at military prison.

    Bashar al-Assad supporters will reject this report as fake news.

    1. HebAlba Avatar
      HebAlba

      Non fake news won’t be published here.
      “Israeli supermarket chain glorifies army killer on grocery bag”
      http://mondoweiss.net/2017/02/israeli-supermarket-glorifies/
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/80e562b966a9bbadf19a2d1a99ae51c58535a546cc5e3b27afaacf008a6281b3.jpg

  2. Rascal Avatar
    Rascal

    Assad is jealous of Iran’s record of executions and tries to take top spot. Shea countries are mass murderers.just like the other Islamic States.

    1. HebAlba Avatar
      HebAlba

      Bla bla bla Shea Iran…
      Amnesty report actually claims to have documented only 375 over a 5-year period. ‘Amnesty relies on its go-to NGOs: all foreign-funded opposition propaganda operation.

      “Amnesty Claims Mass Executions In Syria. Provides Zero Proof
      A new Amnesty International report claims that the Syrian government hanged between 5,000 and 13,000 prisoners in a military prison in Syria. The evidence for that claim is flimsy, based on hearsay of anonymous people outside of Syria. The numbers themselves are extrapolations that no scientist or court would ever accept. It is tabloid reporting and fiction style writing from its title “Human Slaughterhouse” down to the last paragraph. But the Amnesty report is still not propagandish enough for
      the anti-Syrian media. Inevitably only the highest number in the range Amnesty claims is quoted. For some even that is not yet enough.
      The Associate Press agency, copied by many outlets, headlines: Report:
      At least 13,000 hanged in Syrian prison since 2011″:

      BEIRUT (AP) — 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.

      How does “at least 13,000” conforms to an already questionable report which claims “13,000” as the top number of a very wide range?”

  3. HebAlba Avatar
    HebAlba

    “The spokesman of the OHCHR has been notified of the above report. We are now awaiting the BBC headline: “UN says Hezbollah gassed last cats in Aleppo”.

    The BBC is not the only fakenews outlet in this. Indeed it seems that news agencies seek “safety in the pack” by all reporting the same nonsense through each and every channel.

    Reuters – Aleppo could fall ‘at any moment’, U.N. reports civilians killed

    AFP – Syria forces kill at least 82 Aleppo civilians in recent days: UN

    AP – UN agency says dozens of children trapped in building under fire in Syria’s Aleppo

    Again – the UN only says that it knows of such reports. It does not verify or vouches for these. Still the usual “humanitarian” influence operations, like Amnesty International, then join in on the “UN Says …” falsehoods.
    Thousands of news outlets and websites copy from the fake agency reports and “humanitarian” outlets and try to sensationalize their take even further. Its a total disinformation mess.”

  4. HebAlba Avatar
    HebAlba

    YaLibnan Reuters article is from (SRHR) Fake News

    Pro-Western Syrian Network for Human Rights (SRHR)
    by Stephen Lendman

    “UK-based far from Syria’s conflict, the pro-Western, anti-Syria, anti-Russia SNHR calls itself “an independent, non-governmental, nonprofit, impartial organization – run by a man named Fadel Abdul Ghani……….”
    http://sjlendman.blogspot.ca/2016/08/pro-western-syrian-network-for-human.html

    1. Arzna Avatar
      Arzna

      You are right . Assad is a saint . He is amazingly nice . I don’t know why people don’t like him a bit and call him a dictator and a murderer and accuse him of being behind the death of over half a million Syrians . Perhaps these organizations and people know something you and I don’t know , or you know but you have your own agenda and don’t want to admit that this guy is a war criminal and should have been in jail for the past 6 years . You may be in love with Assad and this may be your problem and why you keep defending him. But no one in his right frame of mind will defend a brutal dictator like this butcher . So stop defending him and pretending he is a saint . Did you know that there are hundreds of Lebanese in the Saydnaya prison and this friend of yours refuses to proved the Lebanese government any information on their whereabouts

      1. Rascal Avatar
        Rascal

        As you said, truth and logic do not apply in her case and she is just following her agenda to support the evil Iranian mullahs and Assad the killer while she lives a life of freedom away from non-Iranian or Syrian dictatorships.

        1. HebAlba Avatar
          HebAlba

          Ratscal impotent IQ can’t formulate logic or independence
          he needs mass media, not just brainwash, but homogeneous brainwashed warmongering sectarianism Zionism partners to pass his broken record case, which makes YaLibnan shallow ignorant blog.

          “In the Arab world, they say, everyone is a poet. And everyone knows Adonis, the Paris-based Syrian exile who invented the Arabic prose poem and who has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature”
          http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/16/syria-now-writing-starts-interview-adonis/

      2. HebAlba Avatar
        HebAlba

        Oh.. the fake Lebanese with his Zionists buddies the hyenas petty brain parasites gossiping

        http://sjlendman.blogspot.ca/2016/08/pro-western-syrian-network-for-human.html

        1. Arzna Avatar
          Arzna

          You obviously are an immature teen who knows nothing about Lebanon’s history .
          This will be my last comment on anything you write . I don’t respond to parasites and propagandists you are a waste of time .
          Goodbye

          1. HebAlba Avatar
            HebAlba

            Tell me about Lebanon’s history faker, you did same with Omega cowardly retreating, unable to answer questions.. sorry for you the Amnesty International story is fake too..

            The report’s very title ‘Human Slaughterhouse’ smacks of cheap tabloid journalism. @mnesty produces fakenews on demand.

  5. HebAlba Avatar
    HebAlba

    Amnesty’s Report on Iraq’
    “In 1990 Amnesty International made a horrendous mistake in the midst of the media campaign leading up to Gulf War 1.
    While U.S. military action was being debated and the public was significantly opposed, it was reported that Iraqi troops were stealing incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital and leaving babies to die on the floor.
    In dramatic testimony before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a Kuwaiti teenage girl claimed she was a hospital volunteer and eye-witness.
    Congress members were in tears, the event received huge publicity and had significant influence in changing public opinion.
    The event was a fabrication conceived by a Washington PR firm and the girl was
    the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter.”

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