AP IMPACT: Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail (AP)



Syrian Ibrahim Jamal al-Jahamani, who was recently released from Syrian jail where he said he saw a 15-year-old boy tortured to death, speaks in an interview on the Syrian-Jordanian border Thursday, July 7, 2011. He points to his eyes, signaling that he saw the boy — Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei_ beaten to death by his Syrian interrogators. Al-Sharei disappeared in the southern Syrian flashpoint town of Daraa on April 29, 2011. Al-Jahamani said he saw the boy at a compound run by Syria's powerful Air Force Intelligence and after his release witnessed the videos of the dead teenager that shocked many people in the Arab world. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)AP - Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, eight or nine interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on the floor of a cell, bleeding from his ears and crying out for his mother and father to help him.