Published : 08-03-2016
Relatives of the women detainees in the Syrian regime's prisons expressed their anger against the regime and the international institutions, PLO and Palestinian factions because of the ignorance of the issue. These feelings were expressed in the letter received by AGPS from the families who demanded the human rights organisations to intervene in order to release all women from the infamous Syrian prisons; and raising the issue in every domestic and international occasions.
According to testimonies by released women, the Syrian security carries out various range of torture types on women detainees, from electrocution to rape by officers and soldiers. AGPS statistics indicates that Syrian forces have arrested 1061 Palestinian women, 75 are in enforced disappearance and no information about their fate. AGPS asserts that the real number is more than the documented one, but there are no official figures neither from Palestinian authority nor Syrian government.
Relatives of the women detainees in the Syrian regime's prisons expressed their anger against the regime and the international institutions, PLO and Palestinian factions because of the ignorance of the issue. These feelings were expressed in the letter received by AGPS from the families who demanded the human rights organisations to intervene in order to release all women from the infamous Syrian prisons; and raising the issue in every domestic and international occasions.
According to testimonies by released women, the Syrian security carries out various range of torture types on women detainees, from electrocution to rape by officers and soldiers. AGPS statistics indicates that Syrian forces have arrested 1061 Palestinian women, 75 are in enforced disappearance and no information about their fate. AGPS asserts that the real number is more than the documented one, but there are no official figures neither from Palestinian authority nor Syrian government.
