13,000 People Have Reportedly Been Hanged in Syrian ‘Slaughterhouse’

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A new report from Amnesty International alleges that as many as 13,000 people have been hanged at a Syrian prison as part of what the human rights group has described as the government’s “calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions.” Prisoners were allegedly moved from their cells “in the middle of the night” in groups of 50 or less and hanged to death between 2011 and 2015 at Saydnaya Prison, CNN reported Tuesday. The full report, entitled Human Slaughterhouse, says these actions were authorized at the highest levels of the Syrian government.

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