Published : 03-01-2017
Palestinian activists embarked on a so-called “Where Are the Detainees?” campaign on Facebook as part of ongoing efforts to mobilize support for detainees in Syrian jails.
The campaigners pushed the concerned Syrian, Palestinian, and international parties to take up their responsibilities vis-à-vis the crime of torture perpetrated in Syrian lock-ups and to urge the jailers to unshackle all detainees.
The activists added that the situation cannot be worked out on the ground as long as the detainees’ fate remains shrouded in mystery in Syrian lock-ups.
AGPS has frequently appealed to the Syrian government to release the detainees and disclose their fate, dubbing the torture tactics perpetrated behind prison bars “a barefaced crime.”
A series of reports, including Forced Disappearance 1, Forced Disappearance 2, and the Massacre of Pictures, have been released by AGPS to speak up for the Palestinian victims of torture and forced disappearance in war-torn Syria.
AGPS kept record of the incarceration of 1,120 Palestinian refugees in Syrian penitentiaries, 78 among whom identified as victims of enforced disappearance recorded in 2016.
Several refugees have also been kidnapped at government checkpoints or during abrupt abduction sweeps launched across Syrian provinces.
In the majority of cases where families appeal for the return of their missing siblings, the parents end up receiving their sons’ or daughters’ cadavers wrapped up in plastic bags or in a blood-stained piece of white cloth from a military or government hospital.
Palestinian activists embarked on a so-called “Where Are the Detainees?” campaign on Facebook as part of ongoing efforts to mobilize support for detainees in Syrian jails.
The campaigners pushed the concerned Syrian, Palestinian, and international parties to take up their responsibilities vis-à-vis the crime of torture perpetrated in Syrian lock-ups and to urge the jailers to unshackle all detainees.
The activists added that the situation cannot be worked out on the ground as long as the detainees’ fate remains shrouded in mystery in Syrian lock-ups.
AGPS has frequently appealed to the Syrian government to release the detainees and disclose their fate, dubbing the torture tactics perpetrated behind prison bars “a barefaced crime.”
A series of reports, including Forced Disappearance 1, Forced Disappearance 2, and the Massacre of Pictures, have been released by AGPS to speak up for the Palestinian victims of torture and forced disappearance in war-torn Syria.
AGPS kept record of the incarceration of 1,120 Palestinian refugees in Syrian penitentiaries, 78 among whom identified as victims of enforced disappearance recorded in 2016.
Several refugees have also been kidnapped at government checkpoints or during abrupt abduction sweeps launched across Syrian provinces.
In the majority of cases where families appeal for the return of their missing siblings, the parents end up receiving their sons’ or daughters’ cadavers wrapped up in plastic bags or in a blood-stained piece of white cloth from a military or government hospital.
