(New York Times) While the world's attention has been focused on the military escalation in Syria, the government has also waged an unrelenting campaign of arrests that has snared tens of thousands of people, according to lawyers and activists in Syria. The arrests have focused on two groups: secular activists, including those organizing humanitarian aid, and men and boys from towns the Syrian Army has besieged. Those arrested are dumped into a system devoid of meaningful judicial process or oversight, and are subject to torture.
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