{"id":13577,"date":"2012-03-29T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2012-03-30T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:33:27","slug":"the-price-of-resisting-tyranny-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13577\/the-price-of-resisting-tyranny-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Resisting Tyranny in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written in this space before about <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12525\/tyranny-thy-name-is-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">the human rights atrocities being committed by the Assad regime in Syria<\/a>, which are limited only by the perverse imaginations of the state-employed sociopaths who are carrying them out. Unfortunately, media coverage of these injustices are few and far between given that Syria is a closed society and most victims never live to tell the tale. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/MiddleEast\/Article.aspx?id=263442\" target=\"_blank\">A report in the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a>, however, has some new (and grisly) details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under investigation, detainees would be regularly beaten amid continued insults and threats to family members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would threaten me to rape my sisters and wife if I didn\u2019t cooperate. It was a true nightmare,\u201d says Islam [a Syrian dissident], who detailed methods of torture practiced that included sleep deprivation and mysterious injections that cause anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>London based Amnesty detailed in its report 31 types of torture, including \u2018crucifixion\u2019-type beatings, electric shocks, use of pincers on flesh, sexual assaults with broken bottles or metal skewers. The scale of torture and other ill-treatment in Syria has risen to a level not witnessed for years and is reminiscent of the dark era of the 1980s and 1990s, said Amnesty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brave dissidents of Syria are, as ever, deserving of our thoughts and prayers. Their tormentors are deserving of the devil&#8217;s lash. And the whole nation is deserving of a regime change that will bring this evil epoch to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written in this space before about the human rights atrocities being committed by the Assad regime in Syria, which are limited only by the perverse imaginations of the state-employed sociopaths who are carrying them out. Unfortunately, media coverage of these injustices are few and far between given that Syria is a closed society and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3264,216,1277,1125,2414],"class_list":["post-13577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-foreign-policy","tag-human-rights","tag-middle-east","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}