From blows to the mouth to hammers to the wrists, the man, arrested in 2004 for smuggling, spoke of the treatment he received at a notorious Damascus prison known as the Palestine Branch, where he spent part of his time incarcerated. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/16/world/turkish-inmate-syria-jails/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #syria #turkey #middleeast
'Torture after torture': Turkish inmate recalls time in Syria's jails
The man said he paid the price for the hatred Syria's authorities bore for Turkey's president, who early in the war urged the Syrian president to leave.Remi Banet (The Japan Times)
