It said common methods of torture included forcibly contorting the victim's body into a tire and flogging on the soles of the feet. "This journey is often lethal, with detainees being at risk of death in custody at every stage," he said. The abuses date back to the start of the Syrian uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011. She said that a diabetic woman who had to frequently go to the toilet used a bucket to urinate. The Amnesty report highlights new statistics from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, or HRDAG, an organization that uses scientific approaches to analyze human rights violations, which indicate that 17,723 people died in custody across Syria between March 2011 and the end of 2015.

Source: ABC News August 18, 2016 00:06 UTC