Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

May 31, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://news.google.co.il/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=en_il&hl=en&q=In+Syria%2C+Accounts+of+Widening+Torture+

In Syria, Accounts of Widening Torture

(Wall Street Journal) While the Syrian regime has long been characterized as among the region's most repressive, rights groups say this spring's crackdown has spurred new levels of brutality. Detainees are held in schools, soccer stadiums, security-force facilities and military hospitals, and subjected to various forms of physical and psychological abuse. Rights workers say the widening use of torture is meant to spread terror not only among protesters, but also those who may consider joining them. But the practice instead appears to have enraged some Syrians into mobilizing against the government. A doctor at a military hospital in Damascus said his hospital has an "alternative ER" where people are tortured.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: