Published : 21-02-2022
Governor of Deir AlAsafir town, in Rif Dimashq, handed over documents proving the death of over 46 prisoners, including Palestinian refugees, in Syria’s military prison of Sednaya.
Local sources have been able so far to identify 35 victims, including nine members of the same family. Another 15 victims, among them five Palestinian refugees, could not be identified.
All the victims were arrested in 2018 and subjected to extra-judicial execution in the regime prison of Sednaya.
The Syrian regime recaptured Deir AlAsafir town in mid-March 2016 following air strikes that targeted hospitals and vital services and resulting in scores of civilian deaths and injuries.
AGPS has documented the death of 636 Palestinian refugees in Syria’s state-run penal complexes since the outbreak of the conflict in 2011.
AGPS estimates the real number to be far higher due to the gag orders slapped by the Syrian government on the detainees’ names and fates, along with the families’ reluctance to report such cases over retaliation concerns.
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).
Governor of Deir AlAsafir town, in Rif Dimashq, handed over documents proving the death of over 46 prisoners, including Palestinian refugees, in Syria’s military prison of Sednaya.
Local sources have been able so far to identify 35 victims, including nine members of the same family. Another 15 victims, among them five Palestinian refugees, could not be identified.
All the victims were arrested in 2018 and subjected to extra-judicial execution in the regime prison of Sednaya.
The Syrian regime recaptured Deir AlAsafir town in mid-March 2016 following air strikes that targeted hospitals and vital services and resulting in scores of civilian deaths and injuries.
AGPS has documented the death of 636 Palestinian refugees in Syria’s state-run penal complexes since the outbreak of the conflict in 2011.
AGPS estimates the real number to be far higher due to the gag orders slapped by the Syrian government on the detainees’ names and fates, along with the families’ reluctance to report such cases over retaliation concerns.
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).
