1. Newspaper
The Huffington Post posted this online on July 3, 2012 at 8:12 AM. This article goes into an in-depth look on how Syria has many locations in which people are detained and tortured. They are getting all their information from the Human Rights Watch.
Update 1: Since the initial posting of the article, there have been no updates. Although the Huffington Post does not have any updates on the subject, the Human Rights Watch, which is where all the information is from, does give you fresh news on the matter. There is a link on the Huffington Post that takes you to their website, and from there you can access all the information you might need; such as where the torture centers are located and torture methods used.
2. TV Broadcast
CNN made this report on July 3, 2012 at 11:13 AM. Ivan Watson is reporting and in this broadcast they interview Ole Solvang who is a Human Rights Watch researcher, as well as prisoners who were tortured. We find out exactly what goes down in these torture centers, and what the Human Rights Watch is trying to do to stop it.
Update 1: As with the newspaper, there are no updates. Once again there is a link to the Humans Rights Watch page.
3. Blog
Robert Mackey from the New York Times made a blog post on July 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM about the centers giving us videos about the torture centers and links to the names of the officials who are supposed to be in charge of these crimes.
Update 1: When I scrolled down to see the related posts to this article I see he has other posts about torture in Syria. One was from March 23, 2012; although this technically is not an update it still is a related subject. This post explains the initial thought that their is torture centers out in Syria and that forces are trying to crackdown on them. This post was really informational because it gave us tons of videos of people being tortured, which showed us evidence that this was actually happening. It also showed us tweets of Syrian activists and what they are doing in response to these torture centers.
Update 2: I found another blog post from Mackey, but this time it goes even further back, all the way to March 6, 2012. This is when the initial idea of torture in Syria started happening; it didn't occur in the specialized centers, but in state un medical facilities. Patients were shackled to beds, had their bones broken, flogged, among other disturbing things. We see this on video, which was smuggled out of Syria from a French photographer.
4. Social Media
The video is from YouTube and was posted by the Human Rights Watch. In this video we here from torture victims, how they were tortured, and what these torture centers looked like on the inside. It was posted on July 2, 2012.
Update 1: The same video has posted in other languages. One is an arabic language (I can't be too sure), while the other is in Russian. I think its really good that this organization is posting this video in other languages because it spreads the word a lot better, which is their goal in order to have a better chance to stop the government run torture centers. The video in English is now up to 98,048 views.
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