The United Nations Security Council is due to meet privately and view images of Syrian citizens who have been tortured and killed in the now three-year-old civil war.
France is set to host the meeting in the hopes of leading an international group who will bring the Syrian government to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The images that France is due to show the Security Council are part of a collection of 55,000 digital images of Syrians killed and tortured by troops loyal to President Bashar Assad.
According to AP, the bodies of the young men in the images are emaciated, their bones are protruding and some show signs that they were strangled.
Syria's Justice Ministry has dismissed the pictures of the torture victims as "politicized and lacking objectiveness," AP reported. According to the Syrian government, many of those depicted were killed in battle or tortured by militant groups.
