{"id":362,"date":"2011-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"New evidence of Syria brutality emerges as woman\u2019s mutilated body is found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n23
\nSeptember 2011<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nFresh
\nevidence of the extreme brutality being meted out to Syrian protesters and
\ntheir families has been revealed today by Amnesty International.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe
\nmutilated body of 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni of Homs,
\nthe first woman known to have died in custody during Syria’s recent unrest, was
\ndiscovered by her family in horrific circumstances on 13 September.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe family
\nwas visiting a morgue to identify the body of Zainab’s activist brother
\nMohammad, who was also arrested and apparently tortured and killed in detention.
\nZainab had been decapitated, her arms cut off, and skin removed.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“If it is
\nconfirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the
\nmost disturbing cases of a death in detention we have seen so far,” said Philip
\nLuther, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North
\nAfrica.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“We have
\ndocumented other cases of protesters whose bodies were returned to their
\nfamilies in a mutilated state during recent months, but this is particularly
\nshocking.”<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe
\nkillings of Zainab and Mohammad bring Amnesty International’s records of
\nreported deaths in custody to 103 cases since mass protests in Syria began in
\nMarch this year.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmnesty
\nInternational has recorded 15 new death in custody cases since its report Deadly
\ndetention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria<\/a><\/em>, published
\non 31 August. The bodies have borne signs of beating, shooting and stabbing.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nZainab
\nal-Hosni was abducted by plain-clothes individuals believed to be members of
\nthe security forces on 27 July, apparently to pressure her activist brother
\nMohammad Deeb al-Hosni to turn himself in.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nMohammad
\nDeeb al-Hosni, 27, had been organizing protests in Homs since demonstrations began. After
\nZainab’s arrest in July, he was apparently told on the phone by her captors
\nthat she would only be released if he stopped his anti-regime activities.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe was
\neventually arrested on 10 September and held at the Political Security branch
\nin Homs.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nTheir
\nmother was summoned by security forces to pick up Mohammad’s dead body from a
\nmilitary hospital only three days later, on 13 September. The body showed signs
\nof torture including bruising on the back and cigarette burns on the body. He
\nhad been shot in the right arm, right leg, and three times in the chest.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy chance,
\ntheir mother discovered Zainab’s mutilated body at the same military hospital.
\nHowever, the family were not permitted to take Zainab’s body home until 17
\nSeptember.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nTheir
\nmother was said to have been made to sign a document saying that Zainab and
\nMohammad had been kidnapped and killed by an armed gang.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“There are
\nno signs of torture and murder abating in Syria,” said Philip Luther.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“The
\nmounting toll of reports of people dying behind bars provides yet more evidence
\nof crimes against humanity and should spur the UN Security Council into
\nreferring the situation in Syria
\nto the International Criminal Court.”<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmnesty
\nInternational has compiled the names of more than 2,200 people reported to have
\ndied since pro-reform protests began. Thousands of others have been arrested,
\nwith many held incommunicado at unknown locations at risk of torture or death.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/for-media\/press-releases\/new-evidence-syria-brutality-emerges-woman%E2%80%99s-mutilated-body-found-2011-09-2<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n23
\nSeptember 2011<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nFresh
\nevidence of the extreme brutality being meted out to Syrian protesters and
\ntheir families has been revealed today by Amnesty International.The
\nmutilated body of 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni of Homs,
\nthe first woman known to have died in custody during Syria’s recent unrest, was
\ndiscovered by her family in horrific circumstances on 13 September.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}