(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Detainees Association of Sednaya Prison has released the testimonies of torture survivors of the notorious detention facility.
According to the report, 100% of the detainees had been tortured physically and 97.8% had been tortured psychologically.
The regime security is practicing 24 methods of psychological torture and 8 methods of sexual torture inside Sdenaya prison, including beatings sexual organs.
The majority of the detainees were deprived of food and basic needs, the association said.
Most of Sednaya's detainees were found guilty of affiliation with opposition armed groups, participating in battles against regime forces, and eliminating its informants within the region.
Several human rights reports confirmed that Assad had committed crimes against humanity in Sednaya prison with an Amnesty International report describing it as a "human slaughterhouse".
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), at least 183 cases of arbitrary arrests were documented in October, including 109 cases of enforced disappearance.
Syrian opposition sources said that more than 500,000 prisoners remain inside the prisons of the Syrian regime.
According to the International Conscience Movement, an NGO, more than 13,500 women have been jailed since the Syrian conflict began, while more than 7,000 women remain in detention, where they are subjected to torture, rape and sexual violence.
The Syrian regime has been practicing 72 torture methods gainast detainees in security chambers and military hospitals, SNHR said October.
About 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point in the regime’s detention centers, including 130,000 individuals who are still detained or forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime, since the revolution erupted in March 2011, SNHR said.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 560,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighbouring countries.
Zaman Al Wasl
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