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Disappearance and detention to suppress dissent a hallmark of a decade of conflict in Syria – UN report
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1 March 2021
Geneva, 1 March 2021 After a decade of conflict, tens of thousands of civilians arbitrarily detained in Syria remain forcibly disappeared, while thousands more have been subject to torture, sexual violence or death in detention, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
The Commission of Inquiry’s 30-plus page report, released today, based on over 2,500 interviews conducted over 10 years and investigations into more than 100 specific detention facilities, documents historical and continuing detention-related violations and abuses by nearly every major party that has controlled territory in Syria since 2011.
01 MARCH 2021, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hanny Megally, Member, Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“The first things that emerge from the review is that arbitrary detention was used to punish critics, to punish opponents and it was used by everyone but primarily by the Syrian, by the Syrian State and it was used on a, on a massive scale. It was also used to intimidate and to terrorize the population at large.”
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01 MARCH 2021, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hanny Megally, Member, Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic:
“Torture was systematic by the Government of Syria and also by the Islamic State and by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. It was also used quite often by the other groups. But, but emerges as a systematized approach to torture treatment by those three.”
A man looks at a photo of the launch of a missile hanging on the wall of a factory workers dormitory in Pyongyang. (AP file photo)
SEOUL North Korea has been enslaving political prisoners, including children, in coal production to boost exports and earn foreign currency as part of a system directly linked to its nuclear and missile programs, a South Korea-based human rights group said on Thursday.
The Seoul-based Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) released a study analyzing an intricate connection between North Korea’s exploitation of its citizens, the production of goods for export, and its weapons programs.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been enslaving political prisoners, including children, in coal production to boost exports and earn foreign currency as part of a system directly linked to its nuclear and missile programmes, a South Korea-based human rights group said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: A cargo ship is loaded with coal during the opening ceremony of a new dock at the North Korean port of Rajin July 18, 2014. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev
The Seoul-based Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR) released a study analysing an intricate connection between North Korea’s exploitation of its citizens, the production of goods for export, and its weapons programmes.