That's the term dozens of Syrian detainees used to describe treatment at the hands of government forces upon arriving at one of Syria's prisons. Using a statistical method to estimate how many victims they do not yet know about, the group came up with 17,723 cases. Calls for justiceAmnesty and other human rights organizations have long known of torture occurring in Syria's state-run prisons. Seven were members of the Syrian military or assisted the military at time of arrest. The use of electric shocks, which has been widely documented in Syrian detention facilities, came up in various accounts.

Source: CNN August 18, 2016 02:03 UTC