The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

started around midday on Wednesday after “agitation” by a “group of subversive protesters” nearby, Rafael said. Some of the prisoners at the facility snatched weapons from the guards and ...

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for organising peaceful anti-government protests. For twelve days he was tortured until he was sent to the Mezzeh Air Base prison where guards hung him and other detainees from a fence naked ...

Protesters sang the national anthem and chanted “We are peaceful” and “We have read ... arguing with armed guards. KNCHR condemned what it called the arbitrary arrests and said the initially ...

As Tuesday bled into Wednesday, many of the death penalty protesters were motivated by ... “He was a calm, peaceful, loving human being.” “He was one of the most amazing people,” he ...

In Syria, early, peaceful demonstrations ... notably the Guards' own secret service, are used, not against foreign enemies but ordinary citizens, while use of force against protests, mass arrests ...

Coughlan stressed that the protests he is organising are peaceful and non-abusive, and he feels the victories over Southampton and Manchester United, in which fans outlined their feelings about ...