Syria

Amnesty provides militants in Syria to the pillory

Kidnappings, torture, executions: The human rights organization Amnesty International accuses rebel groups in Syria of serious human rights violations and war crimes.

Syrian civilians were subjected to under the rule of the rebels a “terrifying wave” of violence, says a report by Amnesty International. The people documented sightings rights organisation, cases of kidnappings, torture and executions. Some leaders of the rebel groups were probably the support of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the United States, criticized Amnesty. The grouping called on the international community, the support for those rebel groups, which have made the violation of human rights guilty.

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Arbitrary Arrests

In the rebel-controlled city areas in Aleppo and Idlib, “armed groups a free Hand to commit without fear of punishment of war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law,” criticized the head of the middle East programme of Amnesty international, Philip Luther. The groupings are fixed-were civilians at random, the critical set, the counter-moral commandments in schools, or minority.

Radical Islamic groups have installed in your rule the area of religious courts, imposed for example in the act of adultery, or the suspicion of apostasy, the death penalty, the report says. “A lot of civilians live in continuing fear of abduction, if you criticize the behavior of the ruling armed groups or against the strict rules imposed by some groups,” said Luther.

Human rights violations from all sides

Amnesty documented in the report, violations of human rights of five groups, which are in the North of Syria active: Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-sham, Nureddin such as the Helsinki, Levante-Front and Division 16. Were examined incidents from the years 2012 to 2016. The human rights violations of the government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad were documented by Amnesty already and been criticized.

cr/sti (afp, ap)