Syria
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Syria: "Palmyre", chasser les fantômes
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Syria: sortie de l'enfer des prisons syriennes, une mère aspire à une "nouvelle vie"
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Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty
Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest. As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an exterminat…Syrie : deuxième mutinerie en un mois dans la prison de Hama
Une mutinerie, la deuxième en un mois, a éclaté samedi dans la prison syrienne de Hama (centre) où des détenus, qui réclament leur libération, retiennent en otage le directeur de l’établissement, selon l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’Homme (OSDH).