(English) Up to 7,000 Syrians tortured or killed in detention

iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said hours before a conference on Syria takes place in New York that there is still no agreement on which groups should comprise the “opposition” and which groups should be on a list of “terror” organisations.
Foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries – including Russia, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and other European and Middle Eastern powers – are set to discuss ending Syria’s civil war in New York on Friday.
While there is agreement to end the war, there are a number of sticking points that are expected to prevent a breakthrough, including the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“There has been no agreement on two important aspects; one is the opposition groups and the composition of the opposition groups and second is the list of terrorist organisations.
The US and Russia are heading the talks on Friday. Countering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will be one of the major issues on the agenda.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in Moscow this week to continue what they called a final stage on listing terrorist organisations and on providing assistance to the UN in forming the opposition delegation that should be representative and that should be ready for negotiations with the Syrian government.
Syria’s main opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, will not attend the talks.
The bodies in his images showed signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation and other forms of torture and killing.
In his interview with the investigators’ legal team conducted over the course of three days in January 2014, Caesar told the team he had worked in the Syrian military police for 13 years.
Most of the 6,786 victims shown in the Caesar photographs were detained by just five intelligence agency branches in Damascus.
Two military hospitals in Damascus received the bodies between May 2011, when Caesar began copying files and smuggling them out of his workplace, and August 2013, when he fled Syria.