Published : 31-08-2021
Palestinian refugees joined a vigil held on Monday, August 30, in German`s multi-nation tributary of Koblenz to pressurize the Syrian regime to release all detainees and cease its war crimes perpetrated behind prison bars.
The rally-goers carried photos of dozens of torture victims and detainees forcibly disappeared in Syrian jails.
According to AGPS statistics, over 620 Palestinian refugees died under torture in a Syrian prisons.
Affidavits by ex-detainees have provided evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in harsh torture tactics, including electric shocks, heavy beating using whips and iron sticks, and sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners, in a flagrant violation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT).
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian government to disclose the fate of 1,800 Palestinians secretly held in its lock-ups, release the bodies of those tortured to death, to seriously work on halting harsh torture tactics, launch fact-finding probes into crimes of torture, and to bring those involved in such crimes before courts.
Palestinian refugees joined a vigil held on Monday, August 30, in German`s multi-nation tributary of Koblenz to pressurize the Syrian regime to release all detainees and cease its war crimes perpetrated behind prison bars.
The rally-goers carried photos of dozens of torture victims and detainees forcibly disappeared in Syrian jails.
According to AGPS statistics, over 620 Palestinian refugees died under torture in a Syrian prisons.
Affidavits by ex-detainees have provided evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in harsh torture tactics, including electric shocks, heavy beating using whips and iron sticks, and sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners, in a flagrant violation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT).
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian government to disclose the fate of 1,800 Palestinians secretly held in its lock-ups, release the bodies of those tortured to death, to seriously work on halting harsh torture tactics, launch fact-finding probes into crimes of torture, and to bring those involved in such crimes before courts.
