A human rights group has reported widespread abuse, including torture, in Syrian detention facilities holding thousands of suspected ISIS members and their relatives.
Amnesty International said Wednesday it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria. The centers and camps hold about 56,000 people — the majority of them children and teens — and are run by local authorities affiliated with the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The SDF and its allies, including U.S.
People held in this system are facing large-scale violations of their rights, some of which amount to war crimes,' Nicolette Waldman, Amnesty’s senior crisis advisor, told journalists. The United States is also responsible for the alleged violations because it played a key role in establishing and maintaining the detention system, providing hundreds of millions of dollars to the SDF and affiliated forces and regularly interrogating detainees, Waldman said.
The alleged abuses include 'beating, stress positions, drowning, electric shocks and gender-based violence,' including a male detainee who said he and others had been sodomized with broomsticks by guards, the report said. Detainees were also deprived of food, water and medical care and subjected to extreme cold and heat in overcrowded cells, with some allegedly dying of suffocation, it said.
The local authorities took issue with the allegation that people were arbitrarily detained, asserting that most detainees 'are members of a terrorist organization and were arrested during the battles' and that many had committed crimes against humanity and war crimes. The U.S. State Department said in its own response that 'we share many of concerns' and it has been working to address them.
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