(BBC)- Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons. Amnesty says its document includes interviews with 65 "torture survivors", who have described appalling abuse in jails and detention centres....

Writing by Faris al-Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nidal Nour-Eddin Mahmood, a young man in his twenties from Bosra al-Harir spoke about his 4-year-hard experience in Syrian intelligence prisons, that started in 2012, ended up in 2016 when the Islamic State attacked the brutal prison on Palmyra....

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- In an afternoon in 2012, Syrian regime arrested a university student in Aleppo at air intelligence checkpoint. The student Hasan al-Wasil was released weeks after a corpse with no features after he was burned with acid as done to many corpses shown in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Before he was detained in Assad’s prisons, he was healthy. He came out of the prison, ill and drained out of torture. His body is a witness to what Syrians face in the basements of death and cells of daily killing. Doctor Kamal Muhee al-Deen al-Jum’a devoted himself to the...