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February 7, 2017

Amnesty International: 13,000 People Secretly Hanged at Military Prison
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In a shocking new report on Syria, Amnesty International says as many as
13,000 people have been hanged in a Syrian government military prison
between 2011 and 2015. Amnesty calls the hangings part of a "deliberate
policy of extermination." The group says the majority of the 13,000
people hanged were civilians opposed to the Assad regime. This is
Amnesty International's Lynn Maalouf.

Lynn Maalouf: "The new findings in this report are about a systematic
campaign of mass hangings whereby every week, usually on Mondays and
Wednesdays, groups of detainees, of between 20 to 50 detainees, would be
taken from their cells, told that they would be transferred to civilian
detentions, but instead of that, they were taken to a cell in another
building inside of Sednaya where they would be hanged."



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