Published : 27-02-2019
The families of jailed Palestinian refugees and Syrian nationals appealed, in letters emailed to AGPS, to the United Nations and the concerned international bodies to urge the Syrian government to release all detainees and disclose their mysterious conditions and whereabouts.
The appeals have been launched following controversial statements released by head of Syria’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Major-General Muhammad Mahalla, during a visit he paid to Tafas city, in Daraa, where he told prisoners’ families: “You should not forget those who were detained before 2013”. Mahalla added that their situation is “very difficult” and that most of them have probably died in custody.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Syrian government to reveal the fate of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who have been secretly locked up in state dungeons.
AGPS believes that the secret imprisonment of civilians amounts to a war crime.
The families of jailed Palestinian refugees and Syrian nationals appealed, in letters emailed to AGPS, to the United Nations and the concerned international bodies to urge the Syrian government to release all detainees and disclose their mysterious conditions and whereabouts.
The appeals have been launched following controversial statements released by head of Syria’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Major-General Muhammad Mahalla, during a visit he paid to Tafas city, in Daraa, where he told prisoners’ families: “You should not forget those who were detained before 2013”. Mahalla added that their situation is “very difficult” and that most of them have probably died in custody.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Syrian government to reveal the fate of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who have been secretly locked up in state dungeons.
AGPS believes that the secret imprisonment of civilians amounts to a war crime.
