{"id":493,"date":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","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=493","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to die Syria\u2019s torture survivors speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"File\/Statements\/I_wanted_to_die_Syrias_torture_survivors_speak_out.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please Click here to Read the Full Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A grim catalogue of torture has emerged from  former detainees describing their treatment in Syria\u2019s detention centres since  the predominantly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s  government began in March 2011. This report reveals that all the various security forces are routinely torturing and ill-treating detainees held in the context of the protests and unrest, using methods of cruelty mostly used for decades. The torture carried out appears to be part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population as part of Syrian government policy to crush dissent. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"File\/Statements\/I_wanted_to_die_Syrias_torture_survivors_speak_out.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please Click here to Read the rest of the Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"File\/Statements\/I_wanted_to_die_Syrias_torture_survivors_speak_out.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please Click here to Read the Full Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A grim catalogue of torture has emerged from  former detainees describing their treatment in Syria\u2019s detention centres since  the predominantly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s  government began in March 2011. This report reveals that all the various security forces are routinely torturing and ill-treating detainees held in the context of the protests and unrest, using methods of cruelty mostly used for decades. The torture carried out appears to be part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population as part of Syrian government policy to crush dissent. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"File\/Statements\/I_wanted_to_die_Syrias_torture_survivors_speak_out.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please Click here to Read the rest of the Report<\/a><\/strong><\/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-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}