Published : 29-05-2022
17 CSOs in Syria have called for a central and independent international mechanism to coordinate efforts to release prisoners and forcibly-disappeared persons in Syria.
In a joint statement, the CSOs said tens of thousands of people have fallen prey to secret detention and enforced disappearance in Syria. Action to push for their release has become an urgent priority.
The statement referred to the footage published on April 28 which revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
It added that a number of families identified their relatives in the video, after nine years of enforced disappearance.
The CSOs warned that families wishing to get information about the condition and whereabouts of their relatives are often blackmailed in Syria.
Last month, the Guardian revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people, including Palestinian refugees Wasim Omar Seyam, Said Ahmad Khatab and Luay AlKubra, by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
Thousands of Syrians and Palestinian were discovered killed under torture when a defector leaked nearly 50,000 photographs in 2014, showing the bodies of some 7,000 detainees mutilated by torture.
17 CSOs in Syria have called for a central and independent international mechanism to coordinate efforts to release prisoners and forcibly-disappeared persons in Syria.
In a joint statement, the CSOs said tens of thousands of people have fallen prey to secret detention and enforced disappearance in Syria. Action to push for their release has become an urgent priority.
The statement referred to the footage published on April 28 which revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
It added that a number of families identified their relatives in the video, after nine years of enforced disappearance.
The CSOs warned that families wishing to get information about the condition and whereabouts of their relatives are often blackmailed in Syria.
Last month, the Guardian revealed that in 2013 military security agents executed about 42 people, including Palestinian refugees Wasim Omar Seyam, Said Ahmad Khatab and Luay AlKubra, by pushing them into a hole, shooting them and then burning them.
Thousands of Syrians and Palestinian were discovered killed under torture when a defector leaked nearly 50,000 photographs in 2014, showing the bodies of some 7,000 detainees mutilated by torture.
