{"id":1257904,"date":"2023-10-10T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/syria-accused-of-pervasive-torture-in-first-global-case-over-civil-war"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:54:44","slug":"syria-accused-of-pervasive-torture-in-first-global-case-over-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/10\/syria-accused-of-pervasive-torture-in-first-global-case-over-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria accused of \u2018pervasive\u2019 torture in first global case over civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International court of justice asked to make urgent ruling against regime for \u2018abhorrent treatment\u2019 of its people<\/p><p>Syria has tortured tens of thousands of its people and maintains a \u201cwidespread and pervasive\u201d system of \u201cabhorrent treatment\u201d, world court judges have heard at the first international case related to the civil war in the country.<\/p><p>Canada and the Netherlands have brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/syria\">Syria<\/a> before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/international-court-of-justice\">international court of justice<\/a> (ICJ), seeking urgent measures to stop the mistreatment of thousands of people still in detention.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/syria-accused-of-pervasive-torture-in-first-global-case-over-civil-war\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/syria-accused-of-pervasive-torture-in-first-global-case-over-civil-war\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International court of justice asked to make urgent ruling against regime for \u2018abhorrent treatment\u2019 of its peopleSyria has tortured tens of thousands of its people and maintains a \u201cwidespread and pervasive\u201d system of \u201cabhorrent treatment\u201d, world court &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29862,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,6,1217,3049,640,1258,691,196,438,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257905,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257904\/revisions\/1257905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}