Published : 09-03-2018
On the eve of International Women's Day in support of women's rights, equality and justice, AGPS confirmed that it documented the arrest of 105 female Palestinian refugees to this date, by the members of security and Syrian intelligence.
According to the Group, the fate of the detainees remains unknown, since the Syrian security system continues to hide the fate and the names of the female detainees in its centers, making it difficult to document information about them in the face of all the forms of torture and oppression that they are subjected to.
The Group reported a testimony of a Palestinian detainee, in which she told of the criminal practices performed by members of the Syrian security against women in general, the Palestinians in particular, starting from electrocuting them, and beating with whips and iron sticks.
This is a clear contravention of the Universal Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency Situations and Armed Conflict, issued in 1974, under Article (5) which stipulated that such practices should be regarded as criminal: “Criminal acts are all forms of repression, cruel and inhuman treatment of women and children, including imprisonment and torture.”
The Group confirmed that it documented 34 Palestinian refugees who died under torture in the Syrian regime prisons, without handing over their bodies amid the silence of the Syrian regime on the issue of martyrs of torture. Some of them were identified by the leaked pictures of victims of torture.
The Action Group referred to the violations against the Palestinian woman in Syria, where they have been subjected to all kinds of torture in the regime’s prisons. The displacements from the Palestinian camps have caused a heavy burden on the Palestinian families in general and women in particular. Hundreds of families have lost their sole breadwinner, either due to the bombardments, detention or death under torture and the women end up alone to face the difficult reality, in terms of house rents, securing food supplies with their high prices, in addition to the security tension in most of the Syrian areas. This is also the case outside Syria.
The Action Group indicates that it has documented the death of 471 Palestinian women since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, along the geographical area of the Syrian territory, which is equivalent to 16% of the total number of victims during the protracted conflict, between March 2011 and until 8th of February 2018.
According to the Group’s statistics, 1672 Palestinian refugees have been arrested by the Syrian security systems since March 2012, while the actual number of detainees is expected to exceed this number, because there are no official numbers for the Palestinian detainees in Syria, due to the non-interaction of any official Palestinian entity with the file of Palestinian detainees in the Syrian regime.
On the eve of International Women's Day in support of women's rights, equality and justice, AGPS confirmed that it documented the arrest of 105 female Palestinian refugees to this date, by the members of security and Syrian intelligence.
According to the Group, the fate of the detainees remains unknown, since the Syrian security system continues to hide the fate and the names of the female detainees in its centers, making it difficult to document information about them in the face of all the forms of torture and oppression that they are subjected to.
The Group reported a testimony of a Palestinian detainee, in which she told of the criminal practices performed by members of the Syrian security against women in general, the Palestinians in particular, starting from electrocuting them, and beating with whips and iron sticks.
This is a clear contravention of the Universal Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency Situations and Armed Conflict, issued in 1974, under Article (5) which stipulated that such practices should be regarded as criminal: “Criminal acts are all forms of repression, cruel and inhuman treatment of women and children, including imprisonment and torture.”
The Group confirmed that it documented 34 Palestinian refugees who died under torture in the Syrian regime prisons, without handing over their bodies amid the silence of the Syrian regime on the issue of martyrs of torture. Some of them were identified by the leaked pictures of victims of torture.
The Action Group referred to the violations against the Palestinian woman in Syria, where they have been subjected to all kinds of torture in the regime’s prisons. The displacements from the Palestinian camps have caused a heavy burden on the Palestinian families in general and women in particular. Hundreds of families have lost their sole breadwinner, either due to the bombardments, detention or death under torture and the women end up alone to face the difficult reality, in terms of house rents, securing food supplies with their high prices, in addition to the security tension in most of the Syrian areas. This is also the case outside Syria.
The Action Group indicates that it has documented the death of 471 Palestinian women since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, along the geographical area of the Syrian territory, which is equivalent to 16% of the total number of victims during the protracted conflict, between March 2011 and until 8th of February 2018.
According to the Group’s statistics, 1672 Palestinian refugees have been arrested by the Syrian security systems since March 2012, while the actual number of detainees is expected to exceed this number, because there are no official numbers for the Palestinian detainees in Syria, due to the non-interaction of any official Palestinian entity with the file of Palestinian detainees in the Syrian regime.
