The US and UK are complicit in the detention of thousands of people, including British nationals, in camps and facilities in north-eastIn a report, the charity says the western-backed region’s autonomous authorities are responsible for large-scale human rights violations against people held since the end of the
The UK has provided more than £15m to help expand a large Syrian Democratic Forces facility called Panorama, which detains men and boys who have been denied access to adequate food and medical care, leading to illnesses and diseases, including a severe outbreak of tuberculosis, which is killing one or two people a week, says Amnesty.
Yusuf , one of eight men detained in an SDF detention facility on the outskirts of al-Shaddadi city who spoke to Amnesty, said: “The worst was when they came inside the room … carrying plastic pipes, cables, steel pipes, and they beat us everywhere … Every 15 days, they would take us out, in the yard, all naked … were raping people with stick … Once they took me with another guy … They brought an electricity cable from the generator, and they kept torturing us by electricity … I think the guy...
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said: “The US government has played a central role in the creation and maintenance of this system in which hundreds have died preventable deaths, and must play a role in changing it.”