Daniel Wickham ha resumido el informe de Amnistía Internacional sobre las torturas en las prisiones de Asad en una serie de tuits. Estos son algunos de ellos.
Human Rights Data Analysis Group estimates 17,723 deaths in custody from Mar 2011-Dec 2015. HRDAG, Amnesty say real no. likely to be higher.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Almost every former detainee interviewed by Amnesty witnessed some form of 'welcome party', where guards systematically beat new prisoners.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Another detainee, Maha, was stripped and raped in detention. "You enjoy having sex with the FSA, don't act all innocent now!", she was told.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
This is 'Dulab', a form of torture where detainees are forced into a tyre, bent forward and beaten with a pipe. pic.twitter.com/Ilhc3VHuqh
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Maha was electro-shocked: "They put 2 cables to my head. I started bleeding. Your mouth and nose go blue and you faint. It's so much pain."
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Interrogators began stripping and sexually assaulting Bayan to get her mother to confess. "If she hadn't, they would've raped me", she said.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
"It happened to another girl; they brought her brother and father. They do this systematically. I wasn’t the first and I won’t be the last.”
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Shiyar, a journalist, was burnt with cigarettes. "They put them out all over me. It felt like a knife excavating my body, cutting me apart."
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Umm Omar was told that her friend Rasha, also detained, would be executed if she didn't confess. Rasha later used her hijab to hang herself.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Ahmad, detained in 2012: "The guard was using a stick to guide me, just as you do for horses. But then he put the stick up my anus."
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Several prisoners were beaten to death during 'welcome party' beatings. Another was beaten to death after saying he had breathing problems.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
In another incident, six prisoners were beaten to death. Guards then began beating 14 other men. "They all died within a week", said Salam.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Omar said he saw a guard order one detainee to rape another. When he refused, the guard told him he had to or would be killed.
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
Conclusion: Torture, enforced disappearances and detainee killings are "pursuant to state policy" and "amount to crimes against humanity."
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) 18 de agosto de 2016
