Category: Syria

Syria: Harrowing torture, summary killings in secret ISIS detention centres

Dec 19, 2013

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by

joanne

in Syria

Amnesty International 19 December 2013 Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria, said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which claims to apply strict Shari’a (Islamic law) in areas it…