March 31, 2022 Meet the Middle East

Syria: New anti-torture law “whitewashes” decades of human rights violations

Amnesty International calls on the Syrian authorities to urgently allow independent monitors to access the country’s notorious detention centres – where torture leading to death has been taking place at a mass scale for years – as a first step to signalling any genuine intent to curtail the practice of torture by state agents..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Syria: New anti-torture law “whitewashes” decades of human rights violations