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.” FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 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.”