Human Ritghts Watch report on Torture in Syria

Torture Archipelago

 

Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons since March 2011

Summary

Recommendations

 

Summary

Recommendations

To the UN Security Council

To All Countries

To the Arab League

To Russia and China

To the Syrian Government

Methodology

I. Arrest, Detention, and Torture in Syria

 

Arbitrary Arrests and Unlawful Detention

Conditions in Detention

Systematic Use of Torture and Deaths in Custody

Detention and Torture of Children, Women and Elderly

 

II. Syria’s Detention Facilities

Department of Military Intelligence

Branch 291 – Damascus

Branch 235 (“Palestine Branch”) – Damascus

Branch 248 – Damascus

Branch 227 – Damascus

Branch 215 – Damascus

Branch 245 – Daraa

Aleppo Branch

Branch 271 – Idlib

Homs Branch

Latakia Branch

 

Air Force Intelligence Directorate

Mezzeh Airport Branch – Damascus

Bab Touma Branch – Damascus

Daraa Branch

Homs branch

Latakia Branch

 

Political Security Directorate

 

Mezzeh area – Damascus

Idlib Branch

Homs Branch

Latakia Branch

Daraa Branch

 

General Intelligence Directorate

 

Branch 285 – Damascus

Al-Khattib Branch – Damascus

Latakia Branch

Aleppo Branch

Idlib Branch

Homs Branch

 

Ad Hoc and Joint Detention Facilities

 

Central Prison – Idlib

 

The full report can be read here