Forty bodies with signs of torture found in Damascus hospital, Syrian rebels say

Syrian pro-regime officials told AFP that around forty bodies with obvious signs of torture were found in body bags at a Damascus hospital morgue. “I opened the door of the morgue with my own hands and saw a gruesome sight: about forty bodies were piled there with signs of gruesome torture,” said Mohammed al-Hajj, a deputy from the south, speaking by telephone from Damascus. AFP came into possession of dozens of photos and videos that Mr. Hajj said they were taken by him and show corpses with obvious signs of torture: gouged eyes, pulled teeth, bloodstains, exhumations. Visual material from the hospital in Harasta also depicts a piece of cloth with bones, as well as a decomposing human chest. Bodies were placed in white plastic bags or wrapped in pieces of cloth, some with blood marks, numbers and sometimes names. Many of the victims appeared to have been recently killed. Pro-establishment spearheading the radical Islamist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, […]
Source: News Beast

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