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Horror photos from inside Syria's torture chambers go on display at US Holocaust Museum as war crimes prosecutor calls Bashar al-Assad's regime 'an industrial killing machine not seen since the Nazis'
Horror photos from inside Syria's torture chambers go on display at US Holocaust Museum as war crimes prosecutor calls Bashar al-Assad's regime 'an industrial killing machine not seen since the Nazis' WARNING: GRAPHIC, DISTURBING CONTENT  The photos in the US Holocaust Museum are part of ...
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Stephen Rapp was passionately devoted to human rights, but he has struggled to get the Obama administration to live up to its own ideals.

Stephen Rapp was passionately devoted to human rights, but he has struggled to get the Obama administration to live up to its own ideals.

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Mystery Defector Known as ‘Caesar’ Appears in Washington With Evidence of Assad’s Atrocities
The Syrian military police photographer who defected with tens of thousands of photos of Assad’s war crimes is now in Washington, D.C., to share what he has seen with America. The Syrian defector known as “Caesar,” who documented and then fled with evidence of Syrian President...
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U.S. war crimes ambassador stepping down in ‘frustration’
  Stephen Rapp pushed vigorously to prosecute Syrian regime atrocities, was thwarted by legal roadblocks By Michael Isikoff January 16, 2015 2:40 PM Yahoo News    . Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, speaking at a pre...
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Syrian Defector: Assad Poised to Torture and Murder 150,000 More
Congress was shocked Thursday when a Syrian defector recounted how he documented Assad’s killing of over 11,000 innocents. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to ‘Caesar.’ The regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad is holding 150,000 civilians in custod...
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Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action
By MICHAEL R. GORDONOCT. 31, 2014   The Syrian defector and photographer known as Caesar, wearing a blue hooded jacket, listened to an interpreter at a briefing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Wearin...
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Geolocating the Location Where the Syrian “Caesar” Photographs Were Taken
  March 18, 2015+ By Bellingcat   Bashar al-Assad and his regime are suspected to be behind the disappearance of many thousands of persons in recent years, many of whom are presumed to have been tortured and killed. Following prisoners’ deaths, a team of forensic photogra...
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Syrian Opposition to Post Dead Detainees’ Photos
The Syrian police defector known as Caesar (wearing a blue hooded jacket), who smuggled photographs that document the torture and execution of Syrian dissidents, appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year       By MICHAEL R. GORDON ...
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Wrestling With the U.S. to Expose Assad
Wrestling With the U.S. to Expose Assad by: TIM MARK The body doubles and counter-surveillance were just the start. To bring a documentarian of Assad’s atrocities to Congress, Syrian activists had to grapple with the State Department, too. In the morning hours of July 31, 2014, a form...
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U.S. Says Europeans Tortured by Assad's Death Machine
U.S. Says Europeans Tortured by Assad's Death Machine By Josh Rogin   The U.S. State Department has concluded that up to 10 European citizens have been tortured and killed while in the custody of the Syrian regime and that evidence of their deaths could be...
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Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action
Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action     The Syrian defector and photographer known as Caesar, wearing a blue hooded jacket, listened to an interpreter at a briefing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. Alex Wong / Getty Images By MICHAEL&nb...
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Syrian Defector: Assad Poised to Torture and Murder 150,000 More
Syrian Defector: Assad Poised to Torture and Murder 150,000 More Congress was shocked Thursday when a Syrian defector recounted how he documented Assad’s killing of over 11,000 innocents. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to ‘Caesar.’ The regime of Syrian ...
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10,000 Bodies: Inside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Crackdown
10,000 Bodies: Inside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Crackdown   A card identifies a corpse at Hospital 601 in Damascus, Syria. U.S. investigators believe at least 10,000 people, most of them anti-Assad activists, were tortured and killed between 2011 and 2013 as part of a crackdown on ...
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Mystery Defector Known as ‘Caesar’ Appears in Washington With Evidence of Assad’s Atrocities
Mystery Defector Known as ‘Caesar’ Appears in Washington With Evidence of Assad’s Atrocities The Syrian military police photographer who defected with tens of thousands of photos of Assad’s war crimes is now in Washington, D.C., to share what he has seen with America. T...
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In D.C., Syrian defector displays photos of mutilated bodies
In D.C., Syrian defector displays photos of mutilated bodies   By Greg Miller July 28 A Syrian defector who smuggled out thousands of photos of mutilated corpses, showed some of those images in Washington on Monday and said they depicted prisoners who were tortured and killed by the securi...
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Inside Bashar Assad's torture chambers
Photos to be displayed at U.S. Holocaust Museum are 'smoking gun'evidence of war crimes, State Department official tells Yahoo News     The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the emaciated, bruised and burned bodies of Syrian torture victims — g...
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Le régime syrien accusé de "massacre à échelle industrielle"
Le régime syrien accusé de "massacre à échelle industrielle" Réalisé par trois anciens procureurs internationaux, un rapport rendu public lundi accuse Damas d'avoir procédé à l'éxecution méthodique de plus de 10 000 d&...
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Un ex-responsable de l'ONU évoque Auschwitz en parlant de la Syrie
Un ex-responsable de l'ONU évoque Auschwitz en parlant de la Syrie   Un ancien procureur international de l'ONU, David Crane, a évoqué jeudi soir lors d'une conférence de presse à Paris le camp de concentration d'Auschwitz en parlant de la Sy...
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Torture en Syrie: 54 000 photos qui montrent l'horreur
Torture en Syrie: 54 000 photos qui montrent l'horreur Nicolas Falez   Depuis janvier 2014, plusieurs organisations travaillent collectivement sur un terrible stock de clichés qui donnent des informations sur le recours à la torture par le régime de Bachar el-Assad. ...
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