Published : 13-07-2017
The families of over 1,618 Palestinian detainees in Syrian government penitentiaries have been subjected to blackmailing all the way through their attempts to identify their relatives’ fates.
Hundreds of families have paid large sums of money of up to $2,000 to brokers or so-called “detainees trader gangs” comprising government officers and affiliates to get any piece of information about their missing relatives.
Other persons who wanted to know whether their missing relatives are still alive or not said they have been forced to pay as much as $10,000 to senior government officials.
The families hardly ever receive the required pieces of information and the traffickers never show up again as soon as they are paid.
The families of over 1,618 Palestinian detainees in Syrian government penitentiaries have been subjected to blackmailing all the way through their attempts to identify their relatives’ fates.
Hundreds of families have paid large sums of money of up to $2,000 to brokers or so-called “detainees trader gangs” comprising government officers and affiliates to get any piece of information about their missing relatives.
Other persons who wanted to know whether their missing relatives are still alive or not said they have been forced to pay as much as $10,000 to senior government officials.
The families hardly ever receive the required pieces of information and the traffickers never show up again as soon as they are paid.
