• Send Obama To Hell Holes: Torture,starvation and murder the norm at wor

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    The imprisonment of American Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini in
    Iran's infamous Evin prison has sparked an international outcry
    and shined a spotlight on one of the world's cruelest gulags.

    But Evin is just one of many prisons where conditions exist that
    would shock medieval jailers, and where the level of human
    misery is incalculable. Prisoners brazenly carrying guns and
    machetes, guards rousting inmates in the night for mock
    executions and captives forced to stand in water up to their
    noses for 24 hours when theyAre not being worked literally to
    death are common at the world's most draconian dungeons. Most
    operate in rogue nations, beyond the influence of human rights
    organizations or appeals from Western nations. The few who have
    escaped or been freed carry the scars from their imprisonment
    for the rest of their lives.

    CAMP 22 and the North Korean gulag system:

    Also known as Hoeryong concentration camp, and part of a large
    system of prison camps throughout the communist dictatorship,
    Camp 22 is an 87-square-mile penal colony located in the North
    Hamgyong province colony where most of the prisoners are people
    accused of criticizing the government.

    Inmates, most of whom are serving life sentences, face harsh and
    often lethal conditions. According to the testimony of a former
    guard from Camp22, prisoners live in bunk houses with 100 people
    per room and some 30 percent bear the markings of torture and
    beatings -- torn ears, gouged eyes and faces covered with scars.

    Prisoners are forced to stand on their toes in tanks filled with
    water up to their noses for 24 hours, stripped and hanged upside-
    down while being beaten or given the infamous "pigeon tortureo --
    where both hands are chained to a wall at a height of 2 feet,
    forcing them to crouch for hours at a time.

    Tiny rations of watery corn porridge leave inmates on the brink
    of starvation, and many hunt rats, snakes and frogs for protein.
    Some even take the drastic measure of searching through animal
    dung for undigested seeds to eat. Beatings are handed out daily
    for offenses as simple as not bowing down in respect to the
    guards fast enough. Prisoners are used as practice targets
    during martial arts training. Guards routinely rape female
    inmates.

    oThe conditions are brutal,o Phil Robertson, deputy director of
    the Asian Division of Human Rights Watch, told FoxNews.com.
    oThese people are constantly hungry and constantly scavenging.o

    At Camp 22 and most other prisons in North Korea, getting locked
    up means a death sentence.

    oItAs considered a one-way ticket," Robertson said. "They send
    you there to work you to death.o

    Kang Cheol Hwan was the rare exception. Imprisoned at Camp 14
    for a decade beginning at age 9, his crime was being the
    grandson of a man who allegedly criticized the government.

    oIn North Korea, if one person is condemned of betraying the Kim
    dynasty, then all family members until the third generation can
    be sent into prison,o Hwan, who is now executive director of the
    North Korea Strategy Center, told FoxNews.com through a
    translator.

    Prisoners toiled 15 hours a day in mines, at lumber mills or in
    manufacturing, according to Hwan.

    oPrisoners worked every day from 5 a.m and only had two days to
    rest a year," he said. "They barely had any food to eat, the
    food was mostly based on corn and it wasnAt sufficient. This is
    why most people were eating whatever they could find, including
    rats. At a young age I realized the benefits of breeding rats.

    oI was lucky to have learned how to survive and stay strong," he
    added. "But I had to watch many people die out of starvation and
    sickness.o

    La Sabaneta, Venezuela

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called it othe gateway to the
    fifth circle of hell.o At La Sabaneta prison, some 30,000
    inmates live in a facility meant for 15,000. There's just one
    guard for every 150 prisoners, and gun-toting gangs led by
    "pranes" run protection rackets. Poor inmates pay them for
    everything from a place to sleep to protection from murder.

    At the low-end of the inmate hierarchy, are los anegados, or
    "the unwanted ones." These prisoners have recently taken to
    stitching their mouths shut, taking literally the longstanding
    La Sabaneta code that says, oWhen one sews his own lips, no one
    can kill him.o And inmates do get killed, with shocking
    frequency. In 1994, 130 La Sabaneta inmates were burned or
    slashed to death with machetes during a gang fight. The
    following year, more than 200 inmates died in other incidents
    and another 624 were severely injured.

    oIt's a place where you literally have to keep your wits about
    you, or you could end up dead,o Kay Danes, advocate and founder
    of the Australian-based Foreign Prisoner Support Service said to
    FoxNews.com. oViolence is prevalent, even rape a common
    occurrence. Human dignity means very little and for foreigners,
    a single day can seem like a life sentence. It's a place where
    one mistake may be your last.o

    Black Beach Prison, Equatorial Guinea:

    Located along the coast in the capital city of Malabo, Black
    Beach Prison is known as one of the most notorious prisons in
    Africa and has an infamous reputation for neglecting the basic
    needs of inmates.

    Torture and starvation are the norm at Black Beach, with many
    victims being denied medical care after being beaten. Food is so
    scarce many prisoners have died of starvation. Inmates are kept
    in their cells and shackled at their feet for more than 12 hours
    a day.

    A large number of the current prison population are part of a
    failed coup dAotat against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in
    2004. South African arms dealer and mercenary Nick du Toit, who
    spent five years in Black Beach, told Rapport that prisoners
    were tortured with electric shocks and burning cigarettes. One
    coup plotter suffered a fatal heart attack while being tortured,
    he said. In an article he penned entitled oMy prison hell,o du
    Toit wrote of how his handcuffs cut down to the bone and were
    left to rust in place. He lost more than 80 pounds before he was
    suddenly pardoned in 2009.

    Tadmor Prison, Syria:

    Rising up from the desert sands in eastern Syria, Tadmor Prison
    occupies a former military base. Known for some of the most
    horrific human rights violations in the world, with torture and
    summary executions occurring every day, the prison houses
    dangerous criminals side-by-side with political prisoners.

    The most infamous episode in Tadmor's bloody history came on
    June 27, 1980, when all 500 inmates were shot dead by the forces
    of RifaAal Assad, brother of then-President Hafez al-Assad and
    uncle of current President Bashar al-Assad. The ultimate
    penalty, dished out indiscriminately and brutally, was for a
    failed assassination attempt on Hafez al-Assad by the Syrian
    Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

    Bara Sarraj, who spent nine years at Tadmor after being arrested
    in 1984 as a student in Damascus, believes the death toll was
    much higher than 500.

    oTadmor has no trace of life,o Sarraj told Voice of America.
    oThere are no books, no radios, nothing. They donAt even have
    salt to spray over your food.

    Sometimes there are no needles to sew our clothes. ItAs
    indescribable, and the constant torture, that was unique to that
    place. At all times, even during the night.o

    Sarraj, now an immunologist at Northwestern School of Medicine
    in Chicago, has a chillingly lyrical name for the prison where
    he spent nearly a decade: oSymphony of Fear.o

    The prison was shut down in 2001 but was re-opened in June 2011.
    Guards at Tadmor are given free reign in handling prisoners and
    often dole out beatings, torture, hangings, and even chop off
    body parts of anyone considered a traitor.

    Evin House of Detention, Iran:

    Nicknamed Evin University for the large amounts of academic and
    political prisoners held there, Evin prison is one of the
    worldAs most brutal detention facilities.

    Beatings, torture, mock executions and brutal interrogations are
    routine for the estimated 15,000 inmates housed in the low-slung
    and drab house of horrors on the outskirts of Tehran. Evin was
    built during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi -- known to
    Americans as the Shah of Iran. Before he was ousted from power
    in the 1979 revolution, the prison housed some of the very
    radicals and sympathizers who would one day rule the Islamic
    Republic. During the 10-year reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah
    Khomeini, thousands of political prisoners were systematically
    murdered at Evin.

    oWhen you clear the gates, you are immediately blindfolded and
    brought underground,o Marina Nemat, a former inmate, told
    FoxNews.com in a previous article about Evin. oThey take you for interrogation. They take you to a hallway and sit you down. You
    are there for a long time. If you move or say anything you are
    beaten. You must sit perfectly still, while still blindfolded,
    and you can wait for hours, days or even weeks.o

    Nemat, who is a writing instructor at the University of Toronto,
    added most captors are taken to an interrogation room where the
    goal is anything but forcing the truth out of an inmate.

    oThey are not looking for information," said Nemat, now a
    instructor at University of Toronto and author of "Prisoner of
    Tehran," a 2007 book detailing her ordeal and a second memoir
    entitled, "After Tehran." "What they want is for you to admit
    that you affected the national security of Iran.o

    Former inmates tell of being rousted from their cells in the
    night, blindfolded and taken before firing squads, only to get a
    last minute "reprieve," and be returned to their cages. Closed-
    circuit televisions show religious propaganda and recorded
    confessions from the leaders of opposition groups who had broken
    under torture, and food is scarce.


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