{"id":1248,"date":"2011-12-19T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/19\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:26","slug":"with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/19\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes\/","title":{"rendered":"With 5000 Dead in Syria, Channel 4 Exposes President Al-Assad\u2019s Horrendous Torture Program | Andy Worthington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/848347821\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes-president-al-assad-s-horrendous-torture-program-andy-worthington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/848347821\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes-president-al-assad-s-horrendous-torture-program-andy-worthington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/yC6yFZQHszAvBbY4DLuIMDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Tonight, at 11.10 pm GMT, Channel 4 is showing a powerful documentary, \u201cSyria\u2019s Torture Machine,\u201d by Jonathan Miller, the foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, featuring harrowing footage, and further evidence of the lengths to which the regime is prepared to go to cling onto power, The Channel 4 News page about the programme is here, and below is a cross-post of Miller\u2019s informative and deeply disturbing article for the Observer last week about his recent visit to Syria, his findings, and the findings of those who analysed the videos featured in the film to verify their accuracy.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyworthington.co.uk\/2011\/12\/19\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes-president-al-assads-horrendous-torture-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via andyworthington.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesTonight, at 11.10 pm GMT, Channel 4 is showing a powerful documentary, \u201cSyria\u2019s Torture Machine,\u201d by Jonathan Miller, the foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, featuring harrowing footage, and further evidence of the lengths &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/19\/with-5000-dead-in-syria-channel-4-exposes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1286,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/syrias-torture-machine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1248,"position":0},"title":"Syria&#8217;s torture machine","author":"aslam","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Channel 4\u2019s foreign affairs correspondent reports from Syria on the mounting body of evidence that the state is engaging in widespread acts of brutality against its own citizens\u2026 \u00a0Via guardian.co.uk","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1354,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/testimony-of-torture-chinese-dissident-exposes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1248,"position":1},"title":"Testimony of Torture: Chinese Dissident Exposes Prison Brutality &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8211; International","author":"aslam","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. 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