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Avaaz - Arrest Syria's torturers

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A Syrian activist working with Avaaz reveals gruesome scars after regime torture

SIGN THE PETITION: To all members of the UN Security Council and the Arab League:

We call on you to stop the deadly terror in Syria by immediately referring cases against the regime to the International Criminal Court. Both the UN Human Rights Council and a new Avaaz report have found evidence that Assad’s senior officials and security forces have committed crimes against humanity. It is time to stop this murderous brutality and protect the Syrian people, who are risking everything to reclaim their rights and their dignity.

Assad’s regime is quietly trying to annihilate Syria’s pro-democracy movement in deadly torture chambers, but a new Avaaz report exposing these atrocities is making world headlines, and now we can use this evidence to trigger decisive international action to stop Assad’s brutality.

As Arab League observers fail to halt the crackdown, Assad is desperately trying to regain the upper hand by blaming violence on a terrorist insurgency. But new evidence compiled by Avaaz’s brave Syrian activists links senior members of the regime to the horrific torments suffered by peaceful protesters. The UN has already stated that there have been crimes against humanity in Syria — now it’s up to us to ensure key governments confront the horrors in this report and accelerate the end of Assad.

Let’s raise an unstoppable global outcry demanding the Arab League and the UN Security Council immediately refer Assad to the International Criminal Court to be tried for these heinous crimes. The Court played a key role in tackling post-election violence in Ivory Coast in 2010, and can do it again in Syria. Sign the petition now and forward this message to everyone, it will be delivered at the highest level to key Arab League and UN leaders:

Avaaz reveals scale and horror of Assad’s torture chambers
**New report details locations and conditions of Syria’s detention facilities**

The global campaigning organisation Avaaz today publishes a report into the horror and scale of the Syrian regime’s detention facilities, as the Arab League observers continue their mission inside the country.

Bashar al-Assad’s security forces are detaining and in most cases torturing Syrian citizens opposed to the regime in overcrowded prisons, jails and illegal detention centers across the country. Avaaz has compiled the locations of these dungeons — which even include schools — and the names of regime loyalists running the facilities and the torturers-in-chief setting detention policy at the highest levels.

Human rights activists working with Avaaz across Syria have catalogued first-hand accounts of horrific torments and conditions suffered by peaceful protesters and ordinary Syrians caught up in the brutal crackdown, rotting inside the Assad regime’s notorious jails and prisons.

More than 617 people have been confirmed killed under torture by regime forces since the crackdown started on March 15 of last year. Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on Syria’s popular uprising has claimed at least 6,874 victims and seen a further 69,000 people detained over the course of the last nine months. [Read more at link]

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