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Over 60,000 dead in Syrian prisons in 5yrs, monitoring group says

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May 22, 2016

Over 60,000 dead in Syrian prisons in 5yrs, monitoring group says

A Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that over 60,000 inmates have lost their lives in Syrian prisons with most of them dying as a result of torture or poor humanitarian conditions.

Throughout the country’s five-year uprising, many inmates have been killed in dire humanitarian conditions inside Syrian government prisons reports say.

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According to the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday, the numbers were obtained from Syrian government sources.

“Since March 2011, at least 60,000 people lost their lives to torture or to horrible conditions, notably the lack of medication or food, in regime prisons,” said the Observatory’s Rami Abdel Rahman.

Though the Syrian conflict started with popular protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it quickly became a civil war between the government and rebel groups.

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