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Palestinian Author Pronounced Dead after 25 Years in Syrian Prisons

Published : 27-12-2020

Palestinian Author Pronounced Dead after 25 Years in Syrian Prisons

Palestinian novelist Ismail Schemale died on Wednesday in Syria’s state-run AlSuweida prison, where he has been held for over 25 years.

According to the Syrian Press Center, the novelist was arrested in 1995 by Syrian security forces near the Syrian borders. He had been locked up for 21 years in Damascus prisons and for five years in Deraa prison, before he was transferred to Suweida prison, where he breathed his last.

Schemale, born in 1953, was sentenced to life by the State Security Court over a book about Iraq’s executed president Saddam Husain and Bashar AlAssad’s father, Hafedh. 

The prison administration claimed he died of a heart attack. His family said he contracted coronavirus in prison. He was buried in Tafas town, in Deraa, south of Syria.

Over recent years, families of Palestinian refugees tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries said they have been made to sign fraudulent documents and certificates claiming that their relatives died of heart attacks.

Horrific photos showing thousands of people who were tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries were leaked by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar.

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has documented the secret incarceration of 1,797 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government prisons, including 110 women and girls.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/11082

Palestinian novelist Ismail Schemale died on Wednesday in Syria’s state-run AlSuweida prison, where he has been held for over 25 years.

According to the Syrian Press Center, the novelist was arrested in 1995 by Syrian security forces near the Syrian borders. He had been locked up for 21 years in Damascus prisons and for five years in Deraa prison, before he was transferred to Suweida prison, where he breathed his last.

Schemale, born in 1953, was sentenced to life by the State Security Court over a book about Iraq’s executed president Saddam Husain and Bashar AlAssad’s father, Hafedh. 

The prison administration claimed he died of a heart attack. His family said he contracted coronavirus in prison. He was buried in Tafas town, in Deraa, south of Syria.

Over recent years, families of Palestinian refugees tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries said they have been made to sign fraudulent documents and certificates claiming that their relatives died of heart attacks.

Horrific photos showing thousands of people who were tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries were leaked by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar.

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has documented the secret incarceration of 1,797 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government prisons, including 110 women and girls.

 

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/11082