Amnesty: At least 13,000 hanged in Syrian prison since 2011

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Other rights groups have found evidence of massive torture leading to death in Syrian detention facilities. Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as "the slaughterhouse," Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a new report covering the period from 2011 to 2015, Amnesty said 20-50 people were hanged each week at Saydnaya Prison in killings authorized by senior Syrian officials, including deputies of President Bashar Assad, and carried out by military police. In a report last year, Amnesty found that more than 17,000 people have died of torture and ill-treatment in custody across Syria since 2011, an average rate of more than 300 deaths a month. According to the findings, detainees were told they would be transferred to civilian detention centers but were taken instead to another building in the facility and hanged.