As if that war wasn’t horrific enough already: Amnesty reports that up to 13’000 people have been tortured and killed in a single prison in Syria. And it gets worse once you get into the details of the report. Do read it anyway.

From Weekly Filet #, in February 2017.

Syria: Human Slaughterhouse

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