Published : 17-04-2017
Updated statistics released by AGPS on the eve of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day kept record of the internment of 1,183 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government penitentiaries.
AGPS estimates the real number to be far higher due to the gag orders slapped by the Syrian government on the detainees’ names and fates, along with the families’ reluctance to report such cases for fear of retaliation.
AGPS kept record of several cases where Palestinians have been kidnapped at government checkpoints or during assaults carried out by the regime troops on Palestinian shelters. In most such cases, the detainees’ families receive their relatives’ bodies from a military or government hospital while wrapped up in a plastic bag or in a blood-tainted piece of cloth.
AGPS calls on the Syrian government to unearth the fate of hundreds of detainees who have been enduring mysterious fates in Syrian lock-ups. AGPS believes that the violations perpetrated in Syrian penal complexes amount “to war crimes.”
Updated statistics released by AGPS on the eve of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day kept record of the internment of 1,183 Palestinian refugees in Syrian government penitentiaries.
AGPS estimates the real number to be far higher due to the gag orders slapped by the Syrian government on the detainees’ names and fates, along with the families’ reluctance to report such cases for fear of retaliation.
AGPS kept record of several cases where Palestinians have been kidnapped at government checkpoints or during assaults carried out by the regime troops on Palestinian shelters. In most such cases, the detainees’ families receive their relatives’ bodies from a military or government hospital while wrapped up in a plastic bag or in a blood-tainted piece of cloth.
AGPS calls on the Syrian government to unearth the fate of hundreds of detainees who have been enduring mysterious fates in Syrian lock-ups. AGPS believes that the violations perpetrated in Syrian penal complexes amount “to war crimes.”
