Syrian student tells of torture ordeal in mass stadium detention

24 May 2011 A Syrian student's account of the security forces' mass arrest and torture of Banias residents after pro-reform protests. A 25-year-old university student tells Amnesty International of the beatings and torture he and other detainees suffered while held in a sports stadium after he was seized with his 73- year-old father by security forces from their home in the coastal town of Banias on 8 May.“Several soldiers knocked at the door, asked us to come with them for five minutes because the officer wanted to see our IDs. We went with them and there were many other men and boys being…

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