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Slideshow Syria running 27 torture centers: rights group Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow Mon, Jul 2 2012 Libya frees detained ICC staff after apology Mon, Jul 2 2012 Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan Sat, Jun 30 2012 Syria downs Turkish jet, Ankara to act decisively Fri, Jun 22 2012 Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan, gets asylum Thu, Jun 21 2012 Analysis & Opinion The Olympic Games: Much more than the stars Cockfighting in an anti-aircraft bunker Related Topics World » United Nations » Syria » Tue Jul 3, 2012 1:08am EDT (Note: graphic details) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centers across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The New York-based rights group identified 27 detention centers that it says intelligence agencies have been using since President Bashar al-Assad's government began a crackdown in March 2011 on pro-democracy protesters trying to oust him. Human Rights Watch conducted more than 200 interviews with people who said they were tortured, including a 31-year-old man who was detained in the Idlib area in June and made to undress. "Then they started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears. I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful," the man told Human Rights Watch. "They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice. I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days," he said. The report found that tens of thousands of people had been detained by the Department of Military Intelligence, the Political Security Directorate, the General Intelligence Directorate, and the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. Human Rights Watch documented more than 20 torture methods that "clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity." The group called for the U.N. Security Council to refer the issue of Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to adopt targeted sanctions against officials carrying out abuse. "The reach and inhumanity of this network of torture centers are truly horrific," Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch said. "Russia should not be holding its protective hand over the people who are responsible for this." Russia - an ally of Syria - and China have already vetoed two council resolutions that condemned Damascus and threatened it with sanctions and French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters on Monday that reaching a Security Council consensus to refer Syria to the ICC would be difficult. "As France is concerned it's very clear we are very much in favor of referring Syria to the ICC," Araud said. "The problem is it will have to be part ... of a global understanding of the council and I do think that for the moment we have not yet reached this point," he said. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday reiterated her position that the issue of Syria's conflict should be referred to the ICC in The Hague because crimes against humanity and other war crimes may have been committed. She said both sides appear to have committed war crimes. The United Nations has said more than 10,000 people have been killed during the 16-month Syria conflict. 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