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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Keanu Reeves gets deadlier in ‘John Wick 2,’ talks ‘Bill & Ted’ sequel
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
13,000 people hanged in secret at Syrian prison, Amnesty says
LOS ANGELES - Keanu Reeves did not need much persuasion to reprise his role as a lethal retired hitman whose path to revenge sees him killing dozens more in the upcoming sequel “John Wick: Chapter 2.” “I love John Wick,” the actor told Reuters ahead of the film’s opening in theaters on Friday. “We had great ideas, we opened up the world ... making a darn good action movie.” After the death of his puppy and the theft of his car led the hitman on a bloody rampage in 2014’s hit action thriller “John Wick,” the sequel delves into the character’s murky past. It includes the emergence of a rival assassin and a nefarious Italian playboy who destroys Wick’s home, the only reminder of his once-happy life, and sets a bounty on Wick’s head, causing the hitman to go back underground. “John Wick,” the slick 2014 action thriller from Lionsgate made for around $20 million, earned critical praise and marked a box office comeback for Reeves, 52, after a handful of low-performing films. For the second chapter, Reeves said the budget was higher, which allowed for expensive locations, such as the catacombs in Rome and Lincoln Center in Manhattan. A third chapter is already in discussion, the director Chad Stahelski said. Reeves’ career in Hollywood spans more than 30 years, with hits including 1989’s quirky time-travel comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” 1994’s action thriller “Speed” and the mind-bending “Matrix” sci-fi franchise. More recently, he starred as a menacing motel owner in last year’s Hollywood thriller “Neon Demon” and as a doctor helping a girl battling anorexia in this year’s Sundance premiere “To The Bone.” “My whole career, I’ve tried to do different kinds of genres and different scales of film,” the actor said. Reeves said plans for a sequel to “Bill and Ted,” a cult favorite among film lovers, is currently in the works. (rtr)
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AMMAN - Thousands of people have been hanged at a Syrian is yes or no, he will be convicted prison in a secret crackdown on dissent by the regime of Bashar ... This court has no relation with the rule of law. This is not a court,” al-Assad, a report by Amnesty International alleges. The human rights group says as many as 13,000 people have been executed at Saydnaya prison, north of the capital Damascus in a “hidden” campaign authorized by senior regime figures. Amnesty’s report, Human slaughterhouse, says prisoners are moved in the middle of the night from their cells under the pretext of being transferred. They are taken to the grounds of the prison, where they are hanged, likely unaware of their fate until they feel the noose around their neck, Amnesty alleges. The Syrian Ministry of Justice disclaimed the accusations, calling them part of an effort to harm the government’s international reputation after recent victories over rebels, according to state-run news agency SANA. The report is the culmination of a yearlong investigation, including interviews with 84 witnesses including security guards, detainees, judges and lawyers, Amnesty says. Most of those hanged were civil-
ians “believed to be opposed to the government,” the report finds. “The horrors depicted in this report reveal a hidden, monstrous campaign, authorized at the highest levels of the Syrian government, aimed at crushing any form of dissent within the Syrian population,” Lynn Maalouf, the deputy director for research at Amnesty’s Beirut office, said in a statement announcing the report. Amnesty International says there are two detention centers at Saydnaya prison. In the “red building,” the majority of detainees are civilians who have been arrested since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, according to the organization. In the “white building,” the detainees are mainly military officers and soldiers. The report contends that the executed detainees were given a sham trial by “a so-called Military Field Court.” “The judge will ask the name of the detainee and whether he committed the crime. Whether the answer
a former judge said, according to Amnesty. Nicolette Waldman, an Amnesty International researcher, elaborated on the horrific conditions prisoners allegedly face. “They have been actually dying in massive numbers as a result of repeated torture in combination with the systematic deprivation of food, water, medicine and medical care,” she told CNN. “(The report) has gotten the attention it deserved,” Waldman said. “It’s a big story. But for people who work on Syria, it was almost a test case for ‘Does the world still care, not just about death but the fact that it was organized, systematic?’” Continued to page 6
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