Syria a 'torture-chamber', U.N. says in call to free detainees

By Stephanie Nebehay | GENEVA

The top U.N. human rights official called on Tuesday for tens of thousands of detainees to be released from Syria’s prisons and for torturers to be brought to court as part of a lasting peace.

Former Syrian detainees also testified before the U.N. Human Rights Council about their suffering and concern for men, women and children still in custody of the government or of extremist groups including al-Nusra and Islamic State.

“Today in a sense the entire country has become a torture-chamber; a place of savage horror and absolute injustice,” said U.N.

source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/14/syria-a-039torture-chamber039-u-n-says-in-call-to-free-detainees/