http://bit.ly/2AbEv8g Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How al-Assad Crushed Dissent Civilian Casualties Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating. ANNE BARNARD http://bit.ly/2YkXOWj May 11, 2019 at 05:30AM