MESOP – Arguments & Analysis – THE FULL UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT

“Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Deaths in Detention in the Syrian Arab Republic” (U.N. Human Rights Council)

“In the accounts collected from over 500 survivors of Government detention centres between March 2011 and November 2015, almost all described having been the victims of and witnesses to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Over 200 former Government detainees witnessed one or more deaths in custody. Former detainees detailed how cellmates were killed as they were beaten to death during interrogations and in their cells, or died as a result of severe injuries sustained due to torture or ill treatment.

Others perished as a consequence of inhuman living conditions inflicted on the prison population, including severe overcrowding, lack of food, and unclean drinking water. Prisoners were given inadequate or no medical care, and died in large numbers from preventable conditions such as diarrhoea or other contagious infections spread in the unhygienic and overcrowded cells.” Read full report http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53181&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2AMideast%20Brief#.VroKLvnhDIW