Published : 08-05-2022
A Palestinian refugee sheltered in AlSabina Camp, in Syria’s Rif Dimashq city, said he was shocked after he came across the photo of his father Ali Ahmad Ali, born on October 1st, 1969, in an album of torture victims leaked by the so-called Caesar breakaway.
Ali’s son said his father was first arrested in 2013 and then in 2014. He had spent three months in Adra prison and re-arrested on the day of his release after a security patrol from Military Branch 227 stormed his family house and beat his wife and sons. He was secretly transferred to Bayader Nader branch.
“I was arrested in July 2014, one month and a half after my father was arrested, and dragged to the same prison where my father had been held”, said his son. “I did my best to meet my father or at least identify his condition, but to no avail. Other inmates who thought he had been released told me that he had disappeared for nearly one month”.
“My father was transferred to the underground floor and tortured to death”, added the son.
A few years ago, horrific photos showing thousands of people who were tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries were leaked by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar.
Thousands were discovered killed under torture when the defector leaked nearly 50,000 photographs in 2014, showing the bodies of some 7,000 detainees, including Palestinian refugees, mutilated by torture.
AGPS has recorded the secret incarceration of 1,797 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government prisons, including 110 women and girls.
AGPS has documented the death of over 620 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government penitentiaries, among whom minors and elderly detainees.
AGPS believes the number is far higher due to the gag orders enforced by the Syrian regime on the detainees’ fates and names, along with the reluctance of the casualty’s families to reveal the names of their deceased or missing relatives for fear of retaliation.
Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. This prohibition forms part of customary international law, which means that it is binding on every member of the international community, regardless of whether a State has ratified international treaties in which torture is expressly prohibited. The systematic or widespread practice of torture constitutes a crime against humanity.
A Palestinian refugee sheltered in AlSabina Camp, in Syria’s Rif Dimashq city, said he was shocked after he came across the photo of his father Ali Ahmad Ali, born on October 1st, 1969, in an album of torture victims leaked by the so-called Caesar breakaway.
Ali’s son said his father was first arrested in 2013 and then in 2014. He had spent three months in Adra prison and re-arrested on the day of his release after a security patrol from Military Branch 227 stormed his family house and beat his wife and sons. He was secretly transferred to Bayader Nader branch.
“I was arrested in July 2014, one month and a half after my father was arrested, and dragged to the same prison where my father had been held”, said his son. “I did my best to meet my father or at least identify his condition, but to no avail. Other inmates who thought he had been released told me that he had disappeared for nearly one month”.
“My father was transferred to the underground floor and tortured to death”, added the son.
A few years ago, horrific photos showing thousands of people who were tortured to death in Syrian government penitentiaries were leaked by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar.
Thousands were discovered killed under torture when the defector leaked nearly 50,000 photographs in 2014, showing the bodies of some 7,000 detainees, including Palestinian refugees, mutilated by torture.
AGPS has recorded the secret incarceration of 1,797 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government prisons, including 110 women and girls.
AGPS has documented the death of over 620 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government penitentiaries, among whom minors and elderly detainees.
AGPS believes the number is far higher due to the gag orders enforced by the Syrian regime on the detainees’ fates and names, along with the reluctance of the casualty’s families to reveal the names of their deceased or missing relatives for fear of retaliation.
Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. This prohibition forms part of customary international law, which means that it is binding on every member of the international community, regardless of whether a State has ratified international treaties in which torture is expressly prohibited. The systematic or widespread practice of torture constitutes a crime against humanity.
