Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centres in Syria present "damning evidence" of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, according to AFP.
The rights group conducted a nine-month investigation into more than 28,000 photographs smuggled out of Syria by a military defector codenamed Caesar.
The pictures appeared to show the bodies of some 6,000 Syrian detainees - often bearing marks of torture or starvation - who allegedly died in government detention centers or after being transferred to military hospitals.