Published : 08-05-2022
A vigil was held in Berlin’s neoclassical monument Brandenburg Gate, on May 7, in solidarity with prisoners in Syria and with the families of victims of the Tadamun massacre committed by the Syrian regime in 2013.
Last week, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Paulo Pinheiro has asserted that detention in Syria is equivalent to disappearance.
He explained that predictions indicate that most detainees have been executed and buried in mass graves, and others subjected to torture and ill-treatment.
Pinheiro added that being arrested in Syria today is tantamount to disappearing and urged the need to establish an independent mechanism with international authorities to investigate the issue of disappeared civilians.
One week earlier, the Guardian revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people, including Seyam and two other Palestinian refugees—Said Ahmad Khatab and Luay AlKubra—by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
Over 1,700 Palestinian refugees are believed to be languishing in Syria’s prisons, many of them have spent nearly a decade in prison while scores of others died under torture behind prison bars.
A vigil was held in Berlin’s neoclassical monument Brandenburg Gate, on May 7, in solidarity with prisoners in Syria and with the families of victims of the Tadamun massacre committed by the Syrian regime in 2013.
Last week, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Paulo Pinheiro has asserted that detention in Syria is equivalent to disappearance.
He explained that predictions indicate that most detainees have been executed and buried in mass graves, and others subjected to torture and ill-treatment.
Pinheiro added that being arrested in Syria today is tantamount to disappearing and urged the need to establish an independent mechanism with international authorities to investigate the issue of disappeared civilians.
One week earlier, the Guardian revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people, including Seyam and two other Palestinian refugees—Said Ahmad Khatab and Luay AlKubra—by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
Over 1,700 Palestinian refugees are believed to be languishing in Syria’s prisons, many of them have spent nearly a decade in prison while scores of others died under torture behind prison bars.
