Published : 11-01-2023
Palestinian refugee families sheltered in government-held zones and displacement camps in Syria have raised concerns over the increasing abductions in the area.
AGPS has documented several cases where Syrian intelligence branches and anonymous gangsters have arbitrarily detained, disappeared, and/or harassed people in areas retaken from opposition groups. The abuse is taking place even when the government has entered into reconciliation agreements with the people involved.
Palestinian refugee families seeking information about their missing relatives are often forced to pay exorbitant arsons that far outlive their capacities to shell them out. Protracted displacement, deteriorating socio-economic conditions aggravated by unemployment, dire humanitarian needs and protection concerns continue to affect the lives of Palestine refugees in Syria.
Tens of thousands of people, including Palestinian refugees, in Syria have vanished without a trace. They are the victims of enforced disappearance – when a person is arrested, detained or abducted by a state or agents acting for the state, who then deny the person is being held or conceal their whereabouts, placing them outside the protection of the law. The disappeared are cut off from the outside world, packed into overcrowded, 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.
At the same time, the number of actors 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 families sheltered in government-held zones and displacement camps in Syria have raised concerns over the increasing abductions in the area.
AGPS has documented several cases where Syrian intelligence branches and anonymous gangsters have arbitrarily detained, disappeared, and/or harassed people in areas retaken from opposition groups. The abuse is taking place even when the government has entered into reconciliation agreements with the people involved.
Palestinian refugee families seeking information about their missing relatives are often forced to pay exorbitant arsons that far outlive their capacities to shell them out. Protracted displacement, deteriorating socio-economic conditions aggravated by unemployment, dire humanitarian needs and protection concerns continue to affect the lives of Palestine refugees in Syria.
Tens of thousands of people, including Palestinian refugees, in Syria have vanished without a trace. They are the victims of enforced disappearance – when a person is arrested, detained or abducted by a state or agents acting for the state, who then deny the person is being held or conceal their whereabouts, placing them outside the protection of the law. The disappeared are cut off from the outside world, packed into overcrowded, 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.
At the same time, the number of actors 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.
