Published : 23-05-2022
The family of Palestinian refugee Yousef Mohamed Maw’ed denied reports that the Syrian regime released their relative from prison.
Yousef has been forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime for the ninth consecutive year.
Despite the recent decree issued by Syria’s president Bashar AlAsad giving a general amnesty to people convicted on terrorism charges before 30 April 2022, the Syrian regime has not confirmed its intention to include Palestinian prisoners in the general pardon.
The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings or kidnappings, and those against whom there are civil personal claims.
AGPS urges the Syrian regime to issue an official statement in order to clarify to prisoners’ families and human rights organizations whether it plans to include Palestinians in the pardon.
Palestinian Refugees Portal website said there are 2,389 Palestinian refugees secretly held in Syria’s state-run prisons, most of them were arrested between 2012 and 2014.
The website called on the Palestinian Authority, Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Palestine Embassy in Damascus to follow up on the situation and pressurize the Syrian regime to reveal information about the detainees’ condition and whereabouts.
A few days earlier, Syrian military judge Ahmed Tozan told Sham FM radio station that the recently issued presidential amnesty decree includes Syrians exclusively, in accordance with the Syrian Nationality Law. Palestinians or any other nationalities are excluded from the pardon.
“I am the mother of a Palestinian refugee who was arrested in 2013, when he was aged 16. I call on the Syrian regime to update me about the condition and whereabouts of my son, especially following reports that the amnesty excludes Palestinian refugees”, a mother told AGPS.
She called on embassy staff and the PLO to take serious steps in order to identify the fate of her forcibly-disappeared son.
Thousands of Palestinians and Syrians have been jailed on terror charges for peaceful opposition to Assad’s government since the 2011 Arab Spring protests and subsequent war.
The family of Palestinian refugee Yousef Mohamed Maw’ed denied reports that the Syrian regime released their relative from prison.
Yousef has been forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime for the ninth consecutive year.
Despite the recent decree issued by Syria’s president Bashar AlAsad giving a general amnesty to people convicted on terrorism charges before 30 April 2022, the Syrian regime has not confirmed its intention to include Palestinian prisoners in the general pardon.
The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings or kidnappings, and those against whom there are civil personal claims.
AGPS urges the Syrian regime to issue an official statement in order to clarify to prisoners’ families and human rights organizations whether it plans to include Palestinians in the pardon.
Palestinian Refugees Portal website said there are 2,389 Palestinian refugees secretly held in Syria’s state-run prisons, most of them were arrested between 2012 and 2014.
The website called on the Palestinian Authority, Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Palestine Embassy in Damascus to follow up on the situation and pressurize the Syrian regime to reveal information about the detainees’ condition and whereabouts.
A few days earlier, Syrian military judge Ahmed Tozan told Sham FM radio station that the recently issued presidential amnesty decree includes Syrians exclusively, in accordance with the Syrian Nationality Law. Palestinians or any other nationalities are excluded from the pardon.
“I am the mother of a Palestinian refugee who was arrested in 2013, when he was aged 16. I call on the Syrian regime to update me about the condition and whereabouts of my son, especially following reports that the amnesty excludes Palestinian refugees”, a mother told AGPS.
She called on embassy staff and the PLO to take serious steps in order to identify the fate of her forcibly-disappeared son.
Thousands of Palestinians and Syrians have been jailed on terror charges for peaceful opposition to Assad’s government since the 2011 Arab Spring protests and subsequent war.
