Handout 8 - Your publication (6/26/2020) monitored denunciations in platforms using torture as a means of pressure in detention centers and detention centers, and demanded the international community to intervene to stop the torture of detainees, and human rights reports confirmed several methods of torture followed by the Saudi authorities against detainees.
In Egypt, three international human rights organizations issued a report monitoring the torture methodology in the country and criminalizing it, and the report issued by the International Peace Organization, Adalah Foundation and the Al-Shehab Center called on the authorities to immediately stop torture crimes in police stations and hold perpetrators accountable.
According to the human rights report, beatings, electric shock, or sexual assault are not only a practice in torture, but rather that is confined to narrow, poorly ventilated cells, depriving prisoners of sun exposure and preventing medical care, which led to the death of large numbers through neglect. Medical.
In Syria, human rights organizations have issued reports about Syrian prisons and torture there, as the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a tweet that it has documented from March 2011 until June 2020 at least 14,388 people died as a result of torture by parties. The main conflict in Syria, including 177 children and 63 women.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted on the occasion of this day and said, "Torture degrades everything that affects it from near or far, so neither the executioners nor the systems and countries in which it occurs, and systems that allow torture or a fundamental transformation in it should be dismantled." .
The mother of the Pakistani Prime Minister has accused India of torturing Muslims in Kashmir, and said, "Today, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, I call on the international community to hold India accountable for its human rights violations in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir region of India, where children, women and men have faced sexual abuse and electric shock. Physical and psychological torture. "
And human rights advocacy called on Majd Khaled to stand with the victims of torture, and she wrote, "On this day and every day we have to stand with the victims of systematic torture by the repressive authorities, they are tortured and abused because they defended their rights and the rights of others, because they have struggled, encouraged and advanced when many retreated, I talk about Prisoners of conscience who tasted the scourge in order to restore rights. "
While the head of the Syrian National Coalition, Anas al-Abda, called for the assistance of detainees in Syrian prisons, he tweeted, "On the International Day in Support of Torture Victims, we recall that the pictures of martyrs under torture in Assad's detention camps are only two years since the beginning of the revolution, tens of thousands are still in the prisons of the tyrant. And the martyrs' rides did not stop until this moment, and their screams mobilize all the free people of the world to do something to save them. "
As for the activist Areej Al-Sadhan, the sister of the Saudi detainee Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sadhan, she talked about the suffering of her brother. She said, "Torture is a crime and forced disappearance is one of the types of torture. It is also a crime. My brother Abd al-Rahman Al-Sadhan was subjected to torture and enforced disappearance in Saudi Arabia. And 3 months, we are deprived of communicating with my brother. "