Published : 07-01-2023
Palestinian refugee Abdul Wahhab Mohamed Sai’id Abdul Al was released after his family shelled out a ransom of €50,000 to gangsters who kidnapped him last month from Damascus.
Palestinian refugee Abdul Wahab Abdul Al, born in 1986 and raised in Latakia Camp, in Rif Dimashq, was kidnapped on December 13 from Damascus.
The gang told his family that it seeks sum of €50,000 for his release.
AGPS had learned that Abdul Wahab was transferred by the kidnappers from Damascus to AlSuweida, south of Syria.
AGPS has recorded several such abduction cases in Syria, where tens of thousands of people continue to vanish without a trace. They are the victims of enforced disappearance and are placed outside the protection of the law. The disappeared are cut off from the outside world, packed into unknown places and secret cells where torture is routine, disease is rampant and death is commonplace. Their families are forced to live in desperation with few, if any, safe ways of finding their loved ones.
According to human rights reports, the number of actors in Syria seeking to use the system for their own personal gain or advantage has increased. As a result of this opportunism by state security officers, an even greater number of people have been subjected to enforced disappearance in Syria.
Palestinian refugee Abdul Wahhab Mohamed Sai’id Abdul Al was released after his family shelled out a ransom of €50,000 to gangsters who kidnapped him last month from Damascus.
Palestinian refugee Abdul Wahab Abdul Al, born in 1986 and raised in Latakia Camp, in Rif Dimashq, was kidnapped on December 13 from Damascus.
The gang told his family that it seeks sum of €50,000 for his release.
AGPS had learned that Abdul Wahab was transferred by the kidnappers from Damascus to AlSuweida, south of Syria.
AGPS has recorded several such abduction cases in Syria, where tens of thousands of people continue to vanish without a trace. They are the victims of enforced disappearance and are placed outside the protection of the law. The disappeared are cut off from the outside world, packed into unknown places and secret cells where torture is routine, disease is rampant and death is commonplace. Their families are forced to live in desperation with few, if any, safe ways of finding their loved ones.
According to human rights reports, the number of actors in Syria seeking to use the system for their own personal gain or advantage has increased. As a result of this opportunism by state security officers, an even greater number of people have been subjected to enforced disappearance in Syria.
