Published : 20-06-2016
The AGPS monitoring and documentation team announced that 17 Palestinian refugees have died due to torture since the beginning of 2016 till June, including 4 victims died due to torture during January / 2016, while four other victims died during February / 2016, 2 refugees died during March / 2016, 1 refugee died due to torture during April / 2016, 2 refugees died during May / 2016, and four victims died due to torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime during June.
Syrian security services are still reticent about the fate of more than 1077 Palestinian refugees in its jails in spite of the continuous demands to release them and to reveal their fate. The detainees included children, women, elderly, brothers, fathers, sons, and entire families; hundreds of them died due to torture.
In spite of the difficulty and complexity of documenting Palestinian Syrian detainees in the Syrian prisons due to the reticence of security devices and the fear of the detainees' families to talk about the arrest of their sons, yet, the monitoring and documentation team of the AGPS is daily documenting the arrests of Palestinian youth in and outside the camps through its network of correspondents. The team reveals the names of former detainees who were released through witnesses of released detainees or through contacting with their families; the AGPS documented (1077) detainees.
The AGPS monitoring and documentation team announced that 17 Palestinian refugees have died due to torture since the beginning of 2016 till June, including 4 victims died due to torture during January / 2016, while four other victims died during February / 2016, 2 refugees died during March / 2016, 1 refugee died due to torture during April / 2016, 2 refugees died during May / 2016, and four victims died due to torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime during June.
Syrian security services are still reticent about the fate of more than 1077 Palestinian refugees in its jails in spite of the continuous demands to release them and to reveal their fate. The detainees included children, women, elderly, brothers, fathers, sons, and entire families; hundreds of them died due to torture.
In spite of the difficulty and complexity of documenting Palestinian Syrian detainees in the Syrian prisons due to the reticence of security devices and the fear of the detainees' families to talk about the arrest of their sons, yet, the monitoring and documentation team of the AGPS is daily documenting the arrests of Palestinian youth in and outside the camps through its network of correspondents. The team reveals the names of former detainees who were released through witnesses of released detainees or through contacting with their families; the AGPS documented (1077) detainees.
