Published : 05-01-2020
AGPS documented the death of 616 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government prisons since the outburst of the bloody warfare.
Updated statistics by AGPS indicate that 1,780 Palestinian refugees have been secretly held behind Syria’s prison bars, among them 109 women and girls along with dozens of minors.
Field reporters believe the real numbers to be far higher due to the government’s reticence to reveal the names and fates of Palestinian captives and the families’ fears to disclose their relatives’ names over retaliation concerns.
The list of victims includes activists, volunteers, medics, engineers, academics, journalists, university students, and artists.
According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian refugees have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.
AGPS believes that such practices represent flagrant violations of international law which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against civilians.
Such practices also breach the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict of 1974, Article 5, which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian authorities to cease all forms of torture against captives and to disclose the condition and whereabouts of hundreds of Palestinian refugees held in its penal complexes.
AGPS documented the death of 616 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government prisons since the outburst of the bloody warfare.
Updated statistics by AGPS indicate that 1,780 Palestinian refugees have been secretly held behind Syria’s prison bars, among them 109 women and girls along with dozens of minors.
Field reporters believe the real numbers to be far higher due to the government’s reticence to reveal the names and fates of Palestinian captives and the families’ fears to disclose their relatives’ names over retaliation concerns.
The list of victims includes activists, volunteers, medics, engineers, academics, journalists, university students, and artists.
According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian refugees have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.
AGPS believes that such practices represent flagrant violations of international law which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against civilians.
Such practices also breach the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict of 1974, Article 5, which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.
AGPS continues to urge the Syrian authorities to cease all forms of torture against captives and to disclose the condition and whereabouts of hundreds of Palestinian refugees held in its penal complexes.
