Published : 30-06-2022
AGPS has documented the names of nearly 2,000 Palestinian refugees who have been forcibly disappeared in Syria, among them scores of academics, journalists, and activists.
The list includes Palestinian doctor and lecturer Hayel Kacem Hamid, activist Ali Sai’d Shehabi, neurosurgeon Alaa AlDeen Yousef, journalist Muhannad Omar, engineer Moad Adnan Khalil, photojournalist Niraz Sai’d Manad, photojournalist Rami Hajou, urology and genitourinary surgeon Nizar Jawdat Kasab, doctor Radi Salah Shakosh, doctor Emad AlDeen Sa’id, writer Mahmoud Nawara, engineer Abdul Muhaymen Hanawi, engineer Sami Ahmad AlBesharat, and Ahmad Khamis, who was previously held in Israeli prisons.
Dozens of Palestinian academics and activists have also died under torture in the regime prisons, among them Maw’ed Saeed AlMaw’ed (a member of Fatah Movement in Syria), Basil Khartabil “Al-Safadi” (a software developer, technical director and co-founder of Al-Aws Publishing Company), Ahmed Musa Mahmoud (Director-General of the Palestine Charity in Syria), Hisham Qablawi (a political activist and member of the Fatah Al-Intifada Movement), Khaled Bakrawi (an active member of the Jafra Foundation for Relief and Development),activist Alaa Al-Naji (chief of the Palestine Charity in Dumar Al-Balad neighborhood), Hassan Hassan (a theatre artist who was a member of the “Reaction” artistic team and of the Jafra Foundation), and Muhammad Dib Abu AlRuz, leader of the Palestinian Bisan Art Troupe and a member of the Fida party.
Affidavits by ex-detainees continue to provide evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in harsh torture tactics, including electric shocks, heavy beating using whips and iron sticks, and sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees, in a flagrant violation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT).
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian government to disclose the fate of scores of Palestinians held in its lock-ups, release the bodies of those tortured to death, to seriously work on halting harsh torture tactics, launch fact-finding probes into crimes of torture, and to bring those involved in such crimes before courts.
AGPS has documented the names of nearly 2,000 Palestinian refugees who have been forcibly disappeared in Syria, among them scores of academics, journalists, and activists.
The list includes Palestinian doctor and lecturer Hayel Kacem Hamid, activist Ali Sai’d Shehabi, neurosurgeon Alaa AlDeen Yousef, journalist Muhannad Omar, engineer Moad Adnan Khalil, photojournalist Niraz Sai’d Manad, photojournalist Rami Hajou, urology and genitourinary surgeon Nizar Jawdat Kasab, doctor Radi Salah Shakosh, doctor Emad AlDeen Sa’id, writer Mahmoud Nawara, engineer Abdul Muhaymen Hanawi, engineer Sami Ahmad AlBesharat, and Ahmad Khamis, who was previously held in Israeli prisons.
Dozens of Palestinian academics and activists have also died under torture in the regime prisons, among them Maw’ed Saeed AlMaw’ed (a member of Fatah Movement in Syria), Basil Khartabil “Al-Safadi” (a software developer, technical director and co-founder of Al-Aws Publishing Company), Ahmed Musa Mahmoud (Director-General of the Palestine Charity in Syria), Hisham Qablawi (a political activist and member of the Fatah Al-Intifada Movement), Khaled Bakrawi (an active member of the Jafra Foundation for Relief and Development),activist Alaa Al-Naji (chief of the Palestine Charity in Dumar Al-Balad neighborhood), Hassan Hassan (a theatre artist who was a member of the “Reaction” artistic team and of the Jafra Foundation), and Muhammad Dib Abu AlRuz, leader of the Palestinian Bisan Art Troupe and a member of the Fida party.
Affidavits by ex-detainees continue to provide evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in harsh torture tactics, including electric shocks, heavy beating using whips and iron sticks, and sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees, in a flagrant violation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT).
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian government to disclose the fate of scores of Palestinians held in its lock-ups, release the bodies of those tortured to death, to seriously work on halting harsh torture tactics, launch fact-finding probes into crimes of torture, and to bring those involved in such crimes before courts.
