localcreature: Syria using rape as weapon against opposition women and men

localcreature:

By: Ruth Sherlock

In the jails and interrogation centres of secret police, prisoners have been brutalised, either at the hands of officers, or more often with a bottle or other utensil.

“In detention facilities rape is clearly used as a form of torture to humiliate and degrade people, and…

(Source: mar15.info)

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