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Former detainees and defectors have identified the locations, agencies responsible, torture methods used, and, in many cases, the commanders in charge of 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies. The systematic patterns of ill-treatment…

The reach and inhumanity of this network of torture centers are truly horrific.

With violence raging in Syria, thousands of people are fleeing to neighboring countries to escape the bloodshed.  While the flow of refugees to Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey has been covered extensively, the Syrians who have fled to Iraq, most of them Kurds…