The witnesses claimed that once or twice a week 20 to 50 people at a time were hanged after sham trials before a military court. The report’s author, Nicolette Waldman, said the estimate of the number of people hanged ranged from a minimum of 5,000 to a maximum of 13,000. 'The worst place on earth': inside Assad's brutal Saydnaya prison Read more“There is no reason at all to expect that the hangings have stopped. But it said the “vast majority of detention-related violations since 2011 have been carried out by Syrian authorities”. The organisation said it had sought a response to its allegations from Syrian officials in mid-January but received no reply.

Source: The Guardian February 07, 2017 00:01 UTC