Published : 26-03-2022
Palestinian activist Udai Aref Teym has been secretly held in Syria’s state-run prisons for the ninth consecutive year.
Udai was kidnapped by Syrian security forces on August 29, 2013 from his house in Jaramana Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Rif Dimashq.
He was born on May 12, 1993 in Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus. His family hails from the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of AlShajara. His mother was displaced from Kafr Kana town, near occupied Nazareth, to Syria following the Nakbah of 1948.
AGPS has documented the secret detention of over 1,800 Palestinian refugees in state-run penal complexes across war-torn Syria, among them 110 women and girls.
AGPS has also documented the death of over 600 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government lock-ups, including women, children, and elderly civilians.
Affidavits by ex-detainees 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 detainees, 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).
Palestinian activist Udai Aref Teym has been secretly held in Syria’s state-run prisons for the ninth consecutive year.
Udai was kidnapped by Syrian security forces on August 29, 2013 from his house in Jaramana Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Rif Dimashq.
He was born on May 12, 1993 in Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus. His family hails from the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of AlShajara. His mother was displaced from Kafr Kana town, near occupied Nazareth, to Syria following the Nakbah of 1948.
AGPS has documented the secret detention of over 1,800 Palestinian refugees in state-run penal complexes across war-torn Syria, among them 110 women and girls.
AGPS has also documented the death of over 600 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government lock-ups, including women, children, and elderly civilians.
Affidavits by ex-detainees 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 detainees, 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).
