Published : 10-05-2022
AGPS believes the number of Palestinian refugees secretly held in prisons across war-torn Syria are much higher than those revealed, as the Syrian regime continues to impose gag orders on such highly-secretive data.
Palestinian refugee families continue to express fear that their relatives would not be released in the amnesty issued by the country’s president Bashar AlAsad giving a general pardon to people convicted on terrorism charges before 30 April 2022. The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings or kidnappings, and those against whom there are civil personal claims.
AGPS media chief Fayez Abu Eid said while available figures indicate that 1,800 are languishing in Syria’s state-run penal complexes, the real number is expected to hit 3,000.
AGPS has received several emails and updated pieces of information from prisoners’ families following the launch of a new portal on AGPS website.
Over 1,700 Palestinian refugees are believed to be forcibly-disappeared in Syria’s prisons, many of them have spent nearly a decade in prison while scores of others died under torture behind prison bars.
AGPS believes the number of Palestinian refugees secretly held in prisons across war-torn Syria are much higher than those revealed, as the Syrian regime continues to impose gag orders on such highly-secretive data.
Palestinian refugee families continue to express fear that their relatives would not be released in the amnesty issued by the country’s president Bashar AlAsad giving a general pardon to people convicted on terrorism charges before 30 April 2022. The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings or kidnappings, and those against whom there are civil personal claims.
AGPS media chief Fayez Abu Eid said while available figures indicate that 1,800 are languishing in Syria’s state-run penal complexes, the real number is expected to hit 3,000.
AGPS has received several emails and updated pieces of information from prisoners’ families following the launch of a new portal on AGPS website.
Over 1,700 Palestinian refugees are believed to be forcibly-disappeared in Syria’s prisons, many of them have spent nearly a decade in prison while scores of others died under torture behind prison bars.
