Human rights group alleges widespread abuse of suspected ISIS members in Syria [Video]

• Amnesty International, a human rights group, has reported widespread abuse in Syrian detention facilities holding suspected Islamic State members and their relatives.
• The human rights group interviewed 126 people accused of Islamic State affiliation currently or formerly detained.
• The facilities are run by local authorities affiliated with the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

Amnesty International said Wednesday it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria.

The centers and camps hold about 56,000 people — the majority of them children and teens — and are run by local authorities affiliated with the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The SDF and its allies, including U.S.-led coalition forces, defeated the Islamic State group in Syria in 2019, ending its self-proclaimed Islamic “caliphate” that had ruled over a large swath of territory straddling Iraq and Syria.

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