22/01/2014 17:30
Syria: 'Torture photos are fake'
Photos that allegedly show the Syrian regime committing mass torture are "fake," Syria's Justice Ministry said Wednesday, according to CNN.
In a statement on the state news agency SANA, the Justice Ministry categorically denied allegations published in a new report accusing the regime of torturing and killing thousands of detainees in government custody.
The statement branded the report "politicized and lacking in objectivity and professionalism" and said some of the photos are of "foreign terrorists."
It then said any expert "could easily find out that these pictures are fake and that they have no relation to prisoners or detainees in Syrian prisons."
The report, first released by CNN on Monday, was authored by a team of international legal and forensic experts based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector. He claimed to have worked as a photographer at a military hospital that received dead bodies from detention centers.