Amnesty releases Syria torture details Updated March 15 2012 10:06:28 An Amnesty International report says the Syrian government has used systemic and widespread torture and ill-treatment on its citizens in detention. says the scale of torture has risen to levels not witnessed for yearsAmnesty compares it to the notorious era of president Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-AssadThe report is based on the accounts of witnesses or torture victims given to the organisation's researchers in Jordan last month It lists 31 methods of torture by security forces army and pro-government paramilitary personnel in what are called armed shabiha gangsAmnesty spokesman Neil Sammonds says torture in Syria is completely routine with almost no exemptions"On the moment of arrest and then as they're transported to the detention centres and then even worse when they arrive they're subjected to appalling and repeated beatings" he saidMr Sammonds says there are a number of torture methods used"There's also something called the shabah - like a hanging position where people are hand manacled and raised up and they're suspended" he said"Usually their feet hang just a little bit agonisingly close above the ground and while in that position with intense pain on their wrists they are subjected to various forms of beatings"Another form is rather ironically called flying carpet whereby the detainee is strapped to his underpants their face up on a foldable wooden board So if you can imagine the feet and the head by some mechanism are gradually raised and through a process of what might be 30 minutes to an hour the detainee's also subjected to very bad beatings"Beaten and shockedOpposition protester Emad a 23-year-old ethnic Kurd says he was subjected to various forms of torture when he was arrested eight months agoHe says the arresting officers took him to a prison in Damascus and interrogated him"They told me to lay down on the ground and they started to beat me on my back and they started to kick my face" he said"After one hour they said to me 'take off all your clothes' They hung me up on the wall they splashed water on my body and they electrified me every half an hour They electrified me about 10 times"Emad says he was in the prison when he found out that authorities had also arrested his 54-year-old father Amnesty says Emad's story is one of manyThere are also reports of violence on all sides with the opposition Free Syrian Army accused of torturing captured government soldiers Mr Sammonds says Amnesty International is investigating the claims"One journalist who had been with members of the Free Syrian Army in Baba Amr in Homs said that she had seen one detained security force member with a black eye" he said "The commissioner of inquiry came out with a number of cases of ill treatment of people taken by armed opponents of the regime"But as they are saying and as we are saying it is still basically incomparable to the levels of repression being meted out by the Syrian regime"International tension UN envoy Kofi Annan says he is considering Syria's response to plans aimed at ending the year-long violent crackdownMr Annan visited Damascus at the weekend and gave Mr Assad what he termed "concrete proposals" aimed at restoring peaceMr Assad's response has been received and Mr Annan is studying it his spokesman Ahmad Fawzi saysDespite the ongoing violence Mr Assad has called parliamentary elections for May 7And in a further sign that his neighbours are losing patience Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi has called for an independent international inquiry into alleged crimes against humanityAustralia's Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has used his new position to urge the United Nations Security Council to unite in meaningful condemnation of Syria Senator Carr has renewed calls from his predecessor Kevin Rudd for Mr Assad to stand downHe says the human rights abuses and violence in Syria cannot continue"Australia is gravely disappointed by the veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to violence and supporting the Arab League peace plan" he said"The Security Council has again been considering a possible resolution on Syria Differences within the council however remain wide"The Senate has also passed a formal motion from The Greens calling on Mr Assad to resignABC/ReutersTopics:,
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