Torture in Syria

I can't believe torturing is still happening. It's happening while I'm eating good food, sleeping, doing things while out there, there are people who are suffering the one of the worst kind of ordeal- Torture.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-eyewitness-beaten-and-burnt-a-familys-tale-of-torture-7627524.html

It was Friday 23 March when Ahmed and his wife Maha, in her late seventies, and their 44-year-old son Yousef were taken from their home and tortured at the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers. Ahmed was at the mosque when he heard his house in the Bab Sbaa district of Homs had been shelled and rushed home with his son to pull his wife from the rubble. But his relief that she had escaped relatively unscathed soon faded.
"That's when they came and took us," he said. "They were armed and in uniform and they ordered us to follow them to one of our neighbors homes which was abandoned."
It was there that they were led to separate darkened rooms for interrogation. As he was being beaten, Ahmed could hear his son and wife's  cries echoing through the building.
"It was absolute misery," he says. "They asked over and over again who was working with the Free Syrian Army in the area. Then they brought out the blowtorch, like the kind you use for welding metal. I thought we were all going to die."

The hellish questioning lasted three hours. Yousef's back and arms are littered with dozens of burn marks, some deep gouges as the blowtorch was held to his skin for longer and longer. The fact that the family weren't detained for longer, Ahmed says, is evidence that the soldiers knew that they had nothing to do with the opposition and just fishing for information.

This happened last year, March 2012.