In a shocking new report on Syria, Amnesty International says as many as 13,000 people have been hanged in a Syrian government military prison between 2011 and 2015. Amnesty calls the hangings part of a “deliberate policy of extermination.” The group says the majority of the 13,000 people hanged were civilians opposed to the Assad regime. This is Amnesty International’s Lynn Maalouf.

Lynn Maalouf: “The new findings in this report are about a systematic campaign of mass hangings whereby every week, usually on Mondays and Wednesdays, groups of detainees, of between 20 to 50 detainees, would be taken from their cells, told that they would be transferred to civilian detentions, but instead of that, they were taken to a cell in another building inside of Saydnaya where they would be hanged.”