{"id":245565,"date":"2022-04-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/report-vor-ort.de\/cwicstage\/?p=245565&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=245565"},"modified":"2023-07-04T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T20:48:24","slug":"syria-torture-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/report-vor-ort.de\/cwicstage\/syria-torture-prisons\/245565\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8217;s torture prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-afa2435\" data-block-id=\"afa2435\"><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-afa2435-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-5f2637b\" data-block-id=\"5f2637b\"><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-5f2637b-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk--hide-tablet stk--hide-mobile stk-block stk-f5f7614\" id=\"span-data-stk-dynamic-current-page-post-title-contenteditable-false-class-stk-dynamic-content-uberschrift-auszug-inhaltsverzeichnis-span\" data-block-id=\"f5f7614\"><style>.stk-f5f7614 .stk-block-heading__text{color:#000000 !important}<\/style><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text has-text-color has-black-color has-text-align-center\">Syria&#x2019;s torture prisons<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-c8bde8f\" data-block-id=\"c8bde8f\"><style>.stk-c8bde8f{max-width:70% !important;min-width:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important;margin-left:auto !important}@media screen and (max-width:767px){.stk-c8bde8f{max-width:95% !important;min-width:auto !important}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-c8bde8f-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-fb24776\" data-block-id=\"fb24776\"><style>@media screen and (max-width:767px){.stk-fb24776 .stk-block-column__content{margin-right:auto !important;margin-left:auto !important}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-fb24776-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-cf742b6\" data-block-id=\"cf742b6\"><style>.stk-cf742b6 .stk-block-text__text{font-style:italic !important}<\/style><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">An arrest by the intelligence in Syria can be equal to a death sentence. We spoke to three torture victims who were imprisoned back in the 1980s and have since fled to Turkey.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-d2988c1\" data-block-id=\"d2988c1\"><style>.stk-d2988c1{max-width:100% !important;min-width:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important;margin-left:auto !important}<\/style><p class=\"stk-block-text__text has-text-align-center\"> \n<\/p><div class=\"wpml-ls-statics-shortcode_actions wpml-ls wpml-ls-legacy-list-horizontal\">\n\t<ul role=\"menu\"><li class=\"wpml-ls-slot-shortcode_actions wpml-ls-item wpml-ls-item-de wpml-ls-first-item wpml-ls-item-legacy-list-horizontal\" role=\"none\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/report-vor-ort.de\/cwicstage\/\" class=\"wpml-ls-link\" role=\"menuitem\" aria-label=\"Switch to German\" title=\"Switch to German\">\n                                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpml-ls-flag\" 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Opposition members in particular have to fear the worst here since the Assad regime has been waging a war against its own people. At the beginning of the year, the Koblenz Higher Regional Court convicted a Syrian intelligence agent of crimes against humanity in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/de\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/deutschland-schuldspruch-im-prozess-zu-staatlicher-folter-syrien\">trial<\/a>that was gained international attention and was the first of its kind to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the refugee movement as a result of this war, an increasing number of testimonies from these torture prisons have been documented in recent years. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), for example, referred to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecchr.eu\/fall\/das-militaergefaengnis-saydnaya-ort-jahrzehntelanger-folter-erniedrigung-und-hinrichtungen\/\">Saydnaya military prison<\/a> near Aleppo as a &#x201C;place of decades of torture, humiliation and executions.&#x201D; Together with the research center Forensic Architecture, <a href=\"https:\/\/saydnaya.amnesty.org\/\">Amnesty International<\/a> reconstructed this facility based on testimonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that torture goes far beyond the &#x201C;Arab Spring&#x201D; or the 2011 revolution in Syria was also confirmed to us during our research on the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey in the fall of 2021. Three former communists tell at this point how their political commitment to a free Syria back in the 1980s landed them behind bars and what happened to them there; at that time still under Hafiz al-Assad, the father of the current dictator Bashar. To allow for an interactive interview format in which you can choose the interviewee and certain questions yourself, we have adapted the statements stylistically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n                <style><\/style>\n                <div id=\"formz-wrapper\" data-formz-slug=\"\"><\/div>\n                ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest by the intelligence in Syria can be equal to a death sentence. 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