A terrifying torture chamber where Syrians were detained and punished by Islamic State fighters has been revealed.
Many
local people were held inside the ISIS ‘prison’ building and tortured
before being executed in Manbij, a city in northern Syria, a BBC report has found.
Inside the prison, forms questioning local people's knowledge of Islamic rules were left littered on the floor.
The people were graded from 0-100, with a mark of 0-50 classed as 'weak', the BBC's Jiyar Gol reported.
Each
tiny cockroach-infested cell reportedly held up to 10-15 people. Cruel
isolation chambers that barely contained enough room to stand in were
also discovered.
The monitor
said more than 100 civilians had now been killed in U.S.-led raids on
the city and its outskirts since the SDF launched a major offensive at
the end of May to seize the last territory held by Islamic State on the
frontier with Turkey.
Progress
into the city has been slow with the militants deploying snipers,
planting mines and preventing civilians from leaving, hampering efforts
to bomb the city without causing large casualties, Kurdish sources said.
The
sources say Islamic State has prevented thousands of the city's more
than 50,000 population from leaving, effectively holding them hostage to
slow the advance of the SDF fighters.
Rebels
and many residents say Russia's bombing campaign has been even more
indiscriminate and accuse the Russians of deliberately hitting
hospitals, schools and infrastructure in opposition-held areas,
something Moscow denies.
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