The left picture is of Alshogre taken on January 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. While in detention, Alshogre said he heard men escorted to be hanged and had himself been called for “execution” but was spared after a brief trial. Amnesty published a new report on Tuesday revealing that as many as 13,000 men were hanged in secret in a Syrian prison between 2011 and 2015, as part of a government campaign of extrajudicial executions. The group says for five years, once or twice weekly, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. Other rights groups have found evidence of massive torture leading to death in Syrian detention facilities.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2017 00:13 UTC