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Seedersandleechers

(3,044 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 06:10 AM Feb 2017

13,000 people hanged in secret at Syrian prison, Amnesty says

Source: CNN

(CNN)In the middle of the night, the Syrian prisoners are told they're being transferred.

Blindfolded, they're moved from their cells to the grounds of Saydnaya prison, north of the capital Damascus.

They're not told what's next -- likely, most don't know what's going to happen to them until they feel the noose around their necks.

A new report from Amnesty International, Human slaughterhouse, contends that this was the fate of groups of up to 50 people, twice a week, at the prison.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-amnesty-international-report/index.html



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13,000 people hanged in secret at Syrian prison, Amnesty says (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Feb 2017 OP
. applegrove Feb 2017 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author bluedye33139 Feb 2017 #2
Trump is probably asking Putin to congratulate Assad as we speak... HopeAgain Feb 2017 #3
Totally agree. Coventina Feb 2017 #5
This was headlined on the London Times today. Duppers Feb 2017 #4
K & R LiberalLovinLug Feb 2017 #6
... Lucinda Feb 2017 #7

Response to Seedersandleechers (Original post)

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
3. Trump is probably asking Putin to congratulate Assad as we speak...
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 07:51 AM
Feb 2017

history will ask where America was while this went on.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
4. This was headlined on the London Times today.
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:05 AM
Feb 2017


Wingers don't give a damn: "Where's Syria? And aren't they Muslims?"

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