Published : 09-05-2022
On Sunday, the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison revealed the number of detainees released from Sednaya prison as part of the recent “amnesty” decree issued by regime president Bashar AlAssad.
As of Sunday evening, 117 detainees had been released from the Sednaya prison, the association said in a statement on Facebook. It stated however that it was not possible to confirm the number.
The arrest of six of those detainees dates back to the first months of the conflcit, specifically in 2011, while eight of those released were arrested 2012, the statement said. Thirty-two cases were arrested in 2018.
The highest number released is from the Rural Damascus governorate with 39 detainees, followed by the Daraa governorate with 34, Homs with 20, Idleb with eight, Quneitra with four, and Hama and Hassakeh with three — amongst the thousands detained in Sednaya prison.
In batches, the regime released dozens of detainees arrested by regime security forces during the years of the Syrian conflict, as part of the recent presidential amnesty.
In 2019, the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) stated in its first report, entitled “Sednaya Prison: Factory of death and enforced disappearance in Syria”, that inmates have been tortured to death in the highly-secretive penal complex.
The report monitored the procedures and consequences of detention in Sednaya Prison in Syria, which the Assad regime continues to use as a main centre for the detention and enforced disappearance of political detainees, denying them any contact with the outside world and subjecting them to poor conditions that often lead to death.
The report stated that the Syrian regime itself is unable to issue accurate lists of the numbers of detainees due to the numerous victims of extrajudicial executions, torture, starvation, deprivation, and medical neglect.The report also
The ADMSP identified 24 types of psychological torture which included mock executions, being forced to watch other inmates being tortured, and threats against prisoners' families.
Every former prisoner interviewed reported to have been beaten with sticks of batons in Sednaya, with 20 forms of torture identified, often resulting in the death of the inmates.
Almost all reported being whipped or beaten while trapped inside a tire, with other forms of torture including being suspended from the arms, electrocution, and the "German chair", which sees inmates tied around a chair with pressure applied.
Sexual abuse has also significantly increased under the Assad regime, with around a third of detainees admitted to have suffered from this form of torture at Sednaya.
Few inmates expect to emerge from Syria's Sednaya prison alive, a place where routine torture and inhumane living conditions are, obviously, all designed to break the hope and dignity of prisoners, according to human rights groups.
On Sunday, the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison revealed the number of detainees released from Sednaya prison as part of the recent “amnesty” decree issued by regime president Bashar AlAssad.
As of Sunday evening, 117 detainees had been released from the Sednaya prison, the association said in a statement on Facebook. It stated however that it was not possible to confirm the number.
The arrest of six of those detainees dates back to the first months of the conflcit, specifically in 2011, while eight of those released were arrested 2012, the statement said. Thirty-two cases were arrested in 2018.
The highest number released is from the Rural Damascus governorate with 39 detainees, followed by the Daraa governorate with 34, Homs with 20, Idleb with eight, Quneitra with four, and Hama and Hassakeh with three — amongst the thousands detained in Sednaya prison.
In batches, the regime released dozens of detainees arrested by regime security forces during the years of the Syrian conflict, as part of the recent presidential amnesty.
In 2019, the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) stated in its first report, entitled “Sednaya Prison: Factory of death and enforced disappearance in Syria”, that inmates have been tortured to death in the highly-secretive penal complex.
The report monitored the procedures and consequences of detention in Sednaya Prison in Syria, which the Assad regime continues to use as a main centre for the detention and enforced disappearance of political detainees, denying them any contact with the outside world and subjecting them to poor conditions that often lead to death.
The report stated that the Syrian regime itself is unable to issue accurate lists of the numbers of detainees due to the numerous victims of extrajudicial executions, torture, starvation, deprivation, and medical neglect.The report also
The ADMSP identified 24 types of psychological torture which included mock executions, being forced to watch other inmates being tortured, and threats against prisoners' families.
Every former prisoner interviewed reported to have been beaten with sticks of batons in Sednaya, with 20 forms of torture identified, often resulting in the death of the inmates.
Almost all reported being whipped or beaten while trapped inside a tire, with other forms of torture including being suspended from the arms, electrocution, and the "German chair", which sees inmates tied around a chair with pressure applied.
Sexual abuse has also significantly increased under the Assad regime, with around a third of detainees admitted to have suffered from this form of torture at Sednaya.
Few inmates expect to emerge from Syria's Sednaya prison alive, a place where routine torture and inhumane living conditions are, obviously, all designed to break the hope and dignity of prisoners, according to human rights groups.
