(CBS News) In a video shot secretly inside a Syrian regime military hospital in the besieged rebel stronghold of Homs, men are blindfolded and shackled to their beds. The chains are extremely tight.
One man’s chest and hand show what appear to be wounds from a severe beating. Instruments of torture lie on a nearby table – an electric cable and a rubber whip.
The hospital staffer, who risked his life to capture this footage, said he’s seen doctors assault opposition activists.
“I have seen detainees being tortured by electrocution, whipping, beating with batons,” the man videotaping said, adding they also break their legs by twisting the feet until the leg gives.
This is not the first account of allegations of torture in state run hospitals. This week the U.N. said it had received similar video.
But Russia says Assad is fighting “terrorists.” Yeah right.
