Submitted by Ruth on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 23:40
Sweden has reportedly awarded refugee status to a senior Syrian regime interrogator, known to have personally tortured dozens of Syrians dissidents to death in the regime's infamous 'Palestine Branch' prison in Damascus and supervised the torture of hundreds more.
Submitted by Ruth on Mon, 06/22/2020 - 20:30
The family of Lieutenant-Colonel Hussein Al-Harmoush has denied reports that a photograph of a martyr bearing a strong resemblance to the Free Syrian Army co-founder is of their missing relative after the picture, found among the ‘Caesar’ photos which show detainees tortured to death in Assad regime prisons, was widely circulated online.
Prominent Syrian journalist Hadi Abdullah reported on Monday that numerous social media sites had published the photo of the martyr who died under torture, with many claiming that it showed Al-Harmoush.
Submitted by Ruth on Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:38
The rape and torture of Kurdish and dissidents in Iran -- both women and men -- is now widespread and systematic.
Most recently, on May 4, Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, a Kurdish woman employed at the Hotel Tara in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan, plunged from a fourth-floor window of the Tara Hotel, Kurdish news media reported.
Khosrawani allegedly jumped to her death to avoid being raped by an Iranian government security agent; the circumstances surrounding her death have not yet been confirmed.