A newly released report by three eminent lawyers has documented new evidence that the Syrian state has been “systematically killing” approximately 11,000 prisoners.
The 31-page report, commissioned by Qatar who have been supportive of the Syrian opposition, examines thousands of images of dead prisoners which have been smuggled out of the country.
The bodies show “signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation and other forms of torture”, claimed the report.
The Guardian, which released the report to coincide with talks in Geneva, stated that, “the authors are Sir Desmond de Silva QC, former chief prosecutor of the special court for Sierra Leone, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the former lead prosecutor of former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, and Professor David Crane, who indicted President Charles Taylor of Liberia at the Sierra Leone court”.
See the full report here.