|| ‘I wanted to die’, Syria’s torture survivors speak out
por josé simões, em 14.03.12
Desde crucificações a choques eléctricos passando por espancamentos e violações, são 31 – trinta e um – 31 os diversos tipos de tortura usados pelos carniceiros de Bashar al-Assad.
«A sentiment expressed by “Tareq”, who told Amnesty International that it was the reason that he did not inform guards or officials in the detention centres in which he was held of the medication he needed daily. Another former detainee said he considered
suicide while detained. Two others said they would prefer to die than find themselves again detained by Syrian security forces.
A grim catalogue of torture and other ill-treatment has emerged from Syria’s detention centres in a year of unrest against President Bashar al-Assad’s government.»
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