Published : 24-12-2016
AGPS kept record of the death of 456 Palestinians under torture in Syrian regime lock-ups.
Most of the casualties’ bodies have been withheld by the Syrian government forces, in what activists dubbed another crime perpetrated by the regime militias in war-torn Syria.
Withholding the bodies of slain civilians is prohibited under international law except in cases where pillage and mistreatment are feared to occur.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention, and the Rome Statute consider the despoliation and mistreatment of dead bodies war crimes.
Activists called for internationalizing the cause and appealing to international courts and human rights institutions to urge the Syrian regime to disclose the fate of several Palestinian held in government lock-ups and to release the bodies of those tortured to death.
Affidavits by breakaways provided evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in a network of organ harvesting and trafficking. Cadavers are transferred from Lock-up 215 in Kafr Soussa to Al-Assad University Hospital , where organs are severed from the casualties’ bodies, before they are dissolved in a an acid-filled pool dug by the government forces in a subterranean vault at Military Hospital 601.
Sometime earlier, the bodies of 77 victims were identified via photos leaked by a photographer code-named Caesar.
AGPS kept record of the death of 456 Palestinians under torture in Syrian regime lock-ups.
Most of the casualties’ bodies have been withheld by the Syrian government forces, in what activists dubbed another crime perpetrated by the regime militias in war-torn Syria.
Withholding the bodies of slain civilians is prohibited under international law except in cases where pillage and mistreatment are feared to occur.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention, and the Rome Statute consider the despoliation and mistreatment of dead bodies war crimes.
Activists called for internationalizing the cause and appealing to international courts and human rights institutions to urge the Syrian regime to disclose the fate of several Palestinian held in government lock-ups and to release the bodies of those tortured to death.
Affidavits by breakaways provided evidence on the involvement of Syrian government officers in a network of organ harvesting and trafficking. Cadavers are transferred from Lock-up 215 in Kafr Soussa to Al-Assad University Hospital , where organs are severed from the casualties’ bodies, before they are dissolved in a an acid-filled pool dug by the government forces in a subterranean vault at Military Hospital 601.
Sometime earlier, the bodies of 77 victims were identified via photos leaked by a photographer code-named Caesar.
