the most common tortured methods used against children during their detention in Security Branches

[Sand Wind]

SNHR documented the most common tortured methods used against children during their detention in Security Branches or prisons of Syria , according to testimonies of children survived from arrest

1- Using all methods of beating on all body parts by different tools such as stake and electric cables, called colloquially ( Robai ) , to beat on the soles and tread on the head.2- Completely uprooting fingernails.3- Removing hair from different parts of the body4- Cutting out flesh by forceps from sensitive organs5- Cutting out some parts of the detainee body; such as finger, flesh, or stabbing in the back or stomach6- burning detainee's skin using chemical acids or cigarettes.7- exposing the detainee after being enforced to take off all clothes and covers to extreme cold.8- depriving the detainee from medical care totally as there is a lack of medical care in large number of prisons.9- Preventing the detainee to use the toilet but once or twice a day, forcing him/her sometimes to urinate on himself/herself. If the detainee is allowed to use toilet, the period may not exceed a minute. The detainee is also prevented from taking shower, going out and breathing fresh air.10-Pouring cold water over the body after being hit and wounded.11-Cracking ribs.12-insufficient amount of water and food which are not enough for a quarter of detainees.13-Pouring boiling oil or water over legs14-Cutting the ear using the clipper used to trim the trees.15-Stressing ears and nose using mallet.16-Electric shocking, especially in breasts, knees, and elbows.

http://www.syrianhr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1403



12-year-old boy raped and sexually tortured at Air Force Intelligence in Damascus
20:32 Aug 1 2012 Al Mezzah, Damascus, Syria

8-2GF. Sexualized violence of males without penetration (by government forces) 8-3GF. Forced anal or oral entry of males (by government forces) 8-7. Consequences for male victims of sexualized violence
Description
The Assistance Coordination Unit, a Turkey-based group documenting human rights abuses, documented the rape and torture of a 12-year-old boy from Douma, a Damascus suburb. The young boy was with his father on a cattle farm when regime forces detained them both. They were taken to the Air Force Intelligence base in Mezzeh (Damascus), according to the ACU, which interviewed the boy. The youth was detained for six months and was released February 2012; the father is still being held.

According to ACU’s documentation, the young boy was raped and tortured sexually. One form of torture involved hanging bags of water from his testicles, he said. Torture marks were visible, including cigarette burns on his arms and body, the ACU reported. The young boy stated that he was also used as a slave to cook, clean floors, and distribute food to other prisoners, including female prisoners. He reported that other children were also used as slaves.

Originally, the youth was held in a solitary confinement cell with another child. He was then moved to another cell with other children who were also used as slaves. Other cellmates included two 16-year-old boys from Douma, who were alleged to be fighters in a particular Free Syrian Army brigade. The 12-year-boy was also accused of being a leader of the brigade. None of the boys were part of any brigade, ACU said; additionally, the particular brigade did not even exist at the time of their detention, the group said. It is unclear whether the two 16-year-old boys were raped or sexually abused during their detention.

The 12-year-old boy, in addition to having physical scars, suffers from post-traumatic stress and psychological issues, ACU said. He refuses to see a psychiatrist despite offers of help.

Because Syrian government officials currently refuse to allow access to journalists, researchers, and aid workers, WMC’s Women Under Siege cannot independently verify this report of sexualized violence in Syria.

https://womenundersiegesyria.crowdmap.com/reports/view/227

[OnyxCollie]

1. How primitive.

Advanced countries like the US use a "no touch" approach when they torture children.

One of youngest Guantánamo prisoner released
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=4282

Nineteen-year-old Mohamed Jawad has set foot in Afghanistan after seven years in detention making him one of the youngest prisoners to be released from Guantánamo. He is set to sue the US Government in the next couple of months for inhumane treatment and torture in addition to being a minor in detention.

~snip~

Jawad claims his captors tortured him and other prisoners, deprived them of food and sleep. He has described having his hands tied behind his back and being forced to eat by bending over and putting his mouth into a plate of food. He received substantial abuse, including the ‘frequent flier’ treatment which is a form of torture where the victim is shifted from cell to cell. Mohamed was shifted through 152 locations in a week’s time, staying a maximum of 2 hours and 55 seconds in each location.

Government Seeks To Continue Detaining Mohammed Jawad At Guantánamo Despite Lack Of Evidence
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/government-seeks-continue-detaining-mohammed-jawad-guantanamo-despite-lack-evidenc

NEW YORK – After admitting to a federal judge that Guantánamo detainee and American Civil Liberties Union client Mohammed Jawad had been tortured and illegally detained for nearly seven years, the Obama administration today asked the court for permission to continue to detain Jawad while it decides whether to bring a criminal case against him. The request, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes after U.S. District Court Judge Ellen S. Huvelle berated government lawyers last week for their inadequate case against Jawad.

Last fall, a military judge in Jawad's Guantánamo military commission proceeding threw out the bulk of the evidence against him finding that it was obtained through torture. Despite that ruling, the Obama administration continued to rely on those same statements in Jawad's habeas corpus challenge before Judge Huvelle until last week when it said it would no longer rely on that evidence. The Afghan Attorney General recently sent a letter to the U.S. government demanding Jawad's return and suggesting he was as young as 12 when he was captured in Afghanistan and illegally rendered from that country nearly seven years ago.

Following his 2002 arrest in Afghanistan for allegedly throwing a grenade at two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter, Jawad was subjected to repeated torture and other mistreatment and to a systematic program of harsh and highly coercive interrogations designed to break him physically and mentally. Jawad tried to commit suicide in his cell by slamming his head repeatedly against the wall.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Beware of links with malware!!!!

[Sand Wind]

3. Ha ok, that's the new way to discredit source you don't like...

Get lost.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. No, you post links to obscure sites that load malware on computers...

Your OP has been alerted on.

[Sand Wind]

8. Nope.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Yep.

[Sand Wind]

17. http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ NOPE, just harassment from your part, like a kid.

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Have you noticed that the hosts have been removing links from your OP's?

Ya think that's a normal thing for them to do?

[Sand Wind]

21. No, they did not...your are just taking that from your imagination for harassment purposes

[Cooley Hurd]

24. They sure did!

Perhaps you're a hit-and-runner and didn't notice?

[Sand Wind]

40. Nope, your are imagining stuff for harassment purposes.

[petronius]

22. Hosts can't edit OPs. Admins probably can, but I don't recall a time when I've

seen them do it. Do you have a link to this editing (link removal) event?

[Cooley Hurd]

23. MIRT did...

I can look for it, but the OP is so prolific that it would take me longer than I care to spend.

[Sand Wind]

25. Nope, it never happen, you are just inventing stuff...

[Electric Monk]

29. O'rly?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023663539

[Cooley Hurd]

32. Thank you!

[morningfog]

79. This kind of blatant lying and denial combined with self-delete is very familiar.

Much like a return troll who was banned for being a return troll not long before Sand Wind starting this account. Numbered days now, lol.

[Cooley Hurd]

36. It sure did...

Tx4Obama was the MIRT member that did it. Stop posting drive-by's and you would see.

[morningfog]

78. Oh wait! I think I know you! Welcome back, enjoy your stay, lol.

What was that one name you used. Something about coffee?

[petronius]

34. I've done MIRT in the past, and that ability was definitely not available

Unless something has drastically changed - which I'll bet my surfboard against a broken pencil that it hasn't - neither MIRT nor hosts can edit OPs/posts from other DUers. I think you have misunderstood or imagined something here...

[Sand Wind]

38. He is imagining something, for harassment purposes.

[Ian David]

43. I agree. MIRT doesn't have that power. The mods don't, either.

All the mods can do is delete or lock the post, or send you an email and ask you to modify your own post.

[FBaggins]

44. And the alert failed unanimously

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on them. But if you refuse to click, don't expect me to hit 'Hide' based on your unsubstantiated suspicions.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Checked both links, no warnings on any of MY security.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on it.

[Cooley Hurd]

45. I checked TOS

Juries are notoriously ineffective.

[bluetexas]

47. Then why have you served on them?

262 times!

[jessie04]

50. Oh boy !!!

That's got to hurt.

[hobbit709]

4. My security apps found nothing.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. On this OP, perhaps...

[hobbit709]

11. Then why have a cow?

I got no warnings on other OPs by this poster.

[Sand Wind]

13. Voilą...this is just a new kind of harassment from you.

[hobbit709]

15. Jury Results

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

malicious computer code? I refuse to click on the links in the OP.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:08 PM, and the Jury voted 0-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on them. But if you refuse to click, don't expect me to hit 'Hide' based on your unsubstantiated suspicions.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Checked both links, no warnings on any of MY security.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on it.

[Cooley Hurd]

16. You realize that I have no beef with mainstream links you post...

...just the obscure ones that have fucked up several DUer's PC's.

[hobbit709]

18. Then alert on the real ones and not made up crap alerts.

[Cooley Hurd]

26. Here's an idea - just click on all their links!

Good luck!

[hobbit709]

28. I have and experienced no problem.

Maybe you need better security software.

[Cooley Hurd]

30. You haven't, apparently...

[Sand Wind]

20. Your are using the alert button for pure harassment.

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

malicious computer code? I refuse to click on the links in the OP.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:08 PM, and the Jury voted 0-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on them. But if you refuse to click, don't expect me to hit 'Hide' based on your unsubstantiated suspicions.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Checked both links, no warnings on any of MY security.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Then don't click on it.

[Cooley Hurd]

27. I checked the TOS box...

...so it isn't over, skippy!

[hobbit709]

31. Maybe somebody should alert on you for stalking.

[Cooley Hurd]

33. Fine. Ya know what?

Click on every link they post. Have fun, skippy!

[hobbit709]

35. I have.

And you have now managed both of the things I don't respond well to. Goodby.

[Cooley Hurd]

37. Bye!

[jessie04]

39. Who is "they" ?

.

[Ian David]

41. I didn't find any malware. Not even any warnings on WebOfTrust. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

42. Maybe not on this OP...

...but earlier ones.

[Ian David]

51. Then point to them. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

52. 2 of them

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014584923

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014588870

[hobbit709]

53. Still making stuff up.

[Cooley Hurd]

54. Here's another:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017144956

Reading not a strong suit?

[hobbit709]

55. Just because you seem to have it in for the poster doesn't mean there's malware on the links.

evidently you are willing to make stuff up and alert just to get your jollies.

NOT A SINGLE LINK you pointed to has a problem.

I read in four languages but you seem to have a comprehension problem.

[Cooley Hurd]

56. Did you notice in all THREE examples that the threads were locked?

[hobbit709]

57. There's lots of locked threads. Locked doesn't mean malware as you keep claiming.

I'm willing to bet you have a locked thread in your history, does that make you a malware enabler?

Locked threads are a dime a dozen on this site.

[Cooley Hurd]

58. Read the reason why they were locked...

Oy vey

[hobbit709]

59. Find me ONE thing that says malware.

1.This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Lasher (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

2. This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Turborama (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

3. A Jury voted 6-0 to hide this post on Thu Sep 12, 2013, 02:07 AM. Reason: This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. When the original post in a discussion thread is hidden by Jury decision, the entire discussion thread is automatically locked so new replies cannot be posted. Show post

I repeat my assertion that you seem to have a dislike for this poster and are stalking him by serial alerting and making false accusations.

[Cooley Hurd]

62. Here - in crayon:

#1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014584923#post15
Locking on account of adware/spyware issues at YaLibnan website

Note the date...

They were warned, but they kept posting links to the same site:
#2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014588870#post24
24. Locking on account of adware/spyware issues at YaLibnan website

Apparently, two warnings weren't enough - they went for the trifecta:

#3

> > > > > > AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your alert
> > > > > >
> > > > > > At Thu Sep 12, 2013, 02:55 AM you sent an alert on the following post:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Assad at war against hospital : more than 10 death today.
> > > > > > http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017144956
> > > > > >
> > > > > > REASON FOR ALERT:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > YOUR COMMENTS:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Clicking on the news link caused something to attack my computer, must contain malware. Please hide this OP. I am posting this from my phone, can't use my computer now.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Thu Sep 12, 2013, 03:07 AM, and voted 6-0 to HIDE IT.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: I vote to HIDE IT or LOCK THREAD until the Admin can find out if the poster's claim that the link is sending malware to his computer is true or not. No sense in taking down a bunch of DU'ers computers over one thread or one link.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: link suplosedly has malware
> > > > > > Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
> > > > > > Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
> > > > > > Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: Voting to hide out of caution.
> > > > > > Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given

I have not made a single false accusation against the OP.

[Rhiannon12866]

60. Try this one. My computer hasn't worked since Wednesday because of it.

The hosts have been locking threads wth dangerous links so this won't happen to anyone else.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017144956

[hobbit709]

61. No problem with THAT link either.

My security would let me know if anything is there.

[Cooley Hurd]

63. You have sucky security, then...

[hobbit709]

66. I'm not the one claiming they got an infection.

I haven't been hit by a virus in over 10 years-and that one came on a disk from someone I trusted.
I go to a lot of hacker/cracker sites and other unsafe sites and my security always lets me know if there's something there.

[Rhiannon12866]

65. Did you click on the second link?

Maybe you're just lucky, but this has been a recurring problem and the hosts have been locking these threads so more DUers won't end up with malware.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=589156

[hobbit709]

67. yes and even into links on the site, End Result: NADA.

[Rhiannon12866]

68. The fact that my computer doesn't work is not my imagination.

It was one of those scams that want money to fix your computer. And I'm not the only one. But I'm a host, so we check out alerted posts.

[hobbit709]

69. A does not necessarily cause B.

And if you let that get on your computer, you got crappy security.

[Rhiannon12866]

70. I'm hardly the only one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=589156

[Lasher]

76. Go ahead, move that goalpost!

First Cooley Hurd was lying about the presence of malware, now it's Rhiannon's own fault she was attacked by the malware that didn't exist.

[hobbit709]

77. When I went to the sites in question, I got nothing.

so either the malware came from somewhere else-most likely, or some other reason. I was just pointing out that I and several others went there and found NO security threats.

[Lasher]

80. I got the same result but that doesn't mean nothing is there.

But I know Rhiannon is neither a liar nor a fool. PC setups vary widely.

[MADem]

75. I never had a problem with that site in terms of malware, either.

Make no mistake, Ya Libnan will give you a cookie, like every other web page you visit, and they do have a POV (which they make clear on their ABOUT page) but I've never gotten any "malware" from them. Ever.

Of course, I do have a functioning antivirus program, and I don't do popups, either.

[Sand Wind]

73. A new kind of harassment, he don't like what I post.

[Sand Wind]

46. He is taking that from his imagination for harassment purposes. Nt

[Sand Wind]

48. He is just inventing stuff for harassment purposes. Nt

[Sand Wind]

72. It is a new kind of harassment, he don't like what I post.

[Electric Monk]

6. It's generally considered poor form to Rec your own threads. Oh, and posting malware links sucks too

nt

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Big time!

[Sand Wind]

14. No malware http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ WOMEN MEDIA CENTER

Stop your harassment.

[mike_c]

12. the OP is snuff porn meant to inflame hatred and anger....

FFS.

[WCLinolVir]

49. I tend to agree.

And I don't think it is tortured methods, shouldn't that be methods of torture?

[freshwest]

81. IIRC, OP author's first language is not English and is doing the best he or she can. Per Profile:

About Me

Muslim, link to the Maghreb but living in North America. Like US politic, and think that a greater participation of the muslim\'s ummah in the empire\'s agora can change somes stuff. Sorry for my English.

I think some lapses are to be expected in grammar and spelling in this case.

[Waiting For Everyman]

64. Actually this is a serious subject, and the site is legit from what I can tell.

I've had no problems with it, conncecting twice now, and my Norton site-scan finds no threats on the page and gives it a green 'ok', fwiw.

Some DUers might find the 'About' and 'more about this site' pages informative:

The cartography of suffering: Women Under Siege maps sexualized violence in Syria

By Lauren Wolfe/Director and Catherine M. Mullaly/Guest Blogger — March 28, 2012

When we hear about conflicts in foreign countries and imagine terrible acts, our thoughts don’t turn immediately to rape. We think of bombings and refugees and government suppression. If we think of sexualized violence at all, we may imagine a faceless, powerless woman, one unfortunate person who will eventually become a statistic—400,000 raped in Rwanda, 100,000 in Guatemala. When we hear about conflicts, we don’t imagine these stories. Or we consider them to simply be part of a larger horror.

But at Women Under Siege, our mission is to show the world that each woman raped is a person who has been illegally brutalized against her will, that she is part of a family and a community that may now be shredded. We aim to show that this woman, wherever she is, matters.

As part of this mission, we’re trying something new: telling egregiously underreported stories from Syria as they happen, with as much accuracy as possible. The blurred suffering of women who have been sexually violated in the raging but opaque Syrian conflict is now being made visible on our site, WomenUnderSiegeSyria.crowdmap.com.

Documenting sexualized violence in Syria

We are gathering reports of rape, sexual assault, and groping—as well as the consequences of sexualized violence, including mental health issues and pregnancy. By utilizing Ushahidi crowdsourcing technology, which allows survivors, witnesses, and first-responders to report via email, Twitter (#RapeinSyria), or directly to the site, we are able to get these stories to you in real time.

...

http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/the-cartography-of-suffering-women-under-siege-maps-sexualized-violence-in

Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) seems to be accepted as a legit person on the subject by other serious commentators on Syria, and was the former editor of CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists). @WomenUnderSeige. has over 27,000 tweets, which tells me that it has been around for some time, it didn't spring up yesterday; it also has 20,000+ followers, some of them notable. From what I can see, the organization and the sites pass muster as well as many others that are accepted here.

[Sand Wind]

71. It's just a new tactic of harassment, he don't like that I post this kind of information.

[Waiting For Everyman]

74. I understand your frustration.

Last edited Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:31 AM - Edit history (1)

[freshwest]

82. Agreed. No nation gets a pass on this subject, if proven. Nothing in the OP is unknown in history.