(Excerpts from Syria, the Palestinians and their Lebanese Allies)

Torture "made in Syria"

All the institutions in the world that struggle in the defense of the Rights of Man have published documents on the torture carried out in Syria.

The following is a document which was published in Geneva in May 1984 by "The Swiss Association for the Defense of Liberties and of Political Prisoners in Syria".

This document, entitled "The Rights of Man in Syria", deals with the practices that the Damascus Secret Services reserve for political prisoners:

1. The prisoner is stripped naked.
2. His whole body is shaved.
3. Cigarette butts are extinguished over the more sensitive places of his body
4. They burn his scalp.
5. They pull out his nails.
6. They tie his genitals with a nylon thread that they secure to a nail on the wall after transfixing the prisoner to a ring fixed on the opposite wall. Then, one of the tormentors strikes the taut nylon thread repeatedly with a stick.
7. They flog the soles of a prisoner's feet with lashes of a whip, a cane, or a plastic pipe, a minimum of two hundred lashes a time.
8. Then, stretch out the prisoner inside a container of cold water.
9. They invert the prisoner into a car's tire’s rim and then strike him all over (the process: they insert a leg into the middle of the tire, followed by the head and the arms in such a manner that the prisoner is bent over and immobilized in the form of a U inside the tire's circle).
10. They hang the prisoner by his feet with his head down.
11. They force the prisoner to remain standing during several days while preventing him from sitting down or falling asleep by ordering him to raise his arms fully stretched and very straight. .
12. They force the prisoner to stand for long periods of time on one foot, administering blows each time he lowers his raised foot.
13. They force the prisoners to run while carrying heavy loads and sustaining blows until utterly exhausted or in a faint.
14. Pour all of a sudden boiling water over the prisoners.
15. They force the prisoner to sit on a stake.
16. They force the prisoner to sit on the neck of a bottle.
17. They subject the prisoner to electric shock by using an alternative electric current and tying the wires to the more sensitive parts of the body, especially to the genitals.
18. They force pump water or air into the prisoner.
19. They force sexual intercourse with the prisoner.
20. They tear out chunks of the prisoner's flesh from various parts of his body with the help of pliers.
21. They rope the prisoner to a car and drive it full speed until death occurs or till the victims' bodies are torn apart and then the victim’s bodies are desecrated by gouging an eye or cutting an ear, the tongue, the fingers and in some cases the genitals, and by sticking them into the victim's mouth.
22. They force the prisoner to run around a large room surrounded by torturers who strike him with diverse instruments of torture.
23. Force the prisoner to drink his own urine.
24. They throw the prisoner into a basin of electrified water.
25. They tie the prisoner's genitals to prevent him from urinating after forcing him to drink diuretic liquids.

If we omitted any Act, please send your Feedback to our charismatic Arab brother Hafez at http://www.assad.org/ and we will be happy to comply with your wishes.

Only serious "psychopaths" may apply.

Dr. J. Renee Albani is a top Official of the Lebanese Party the "Guardians of the Cedars"

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