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A satellite image of Syria’s Saydnaya military prison, annotated by Amnesty International, via Google Earth and DigitalGlobe.

Amnesty accuses Syria of ‘extermination’ of thousands of prisoners

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Amnesty International’s new report “Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya prison, Syria” alleges that Syrian authorities systematically executed as many as 13,500 detainees at one jail outside Damascus from 2011 to 2015, and that the killings are probably still happening.

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