Published : 02-03-2020
Thousands of families continue to call out for freedom and justice for their loved ones who have been detained and forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime and armed groups.
Human rights group “Families for Freedom” has urged the United Nations Security Council to pressurize the Syrian government to free all prisoners, reveal the condition of victims of enforced disappearance, and lift the gag orders imposed on prisoners’ names and the burial places of torture victims.
“We demand you immediately use your power and influence to free all of Syria’s detained and disappeared who are still alive”, a letter figuring on the group’s home page reads. “We demand the location of the burial sites of those who have been executed or tortured to death. We demand justice for the detained and disappeared and we want those who killed them to be held to account.”
According to the group, hundreds of thousands of civilians are detained or disappeared, the majority of them at the hands of the Syrian regime.
“Our position is against enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and all parties to the conflict. We want to mobilize the public to pressure all sides to comply with our demands”, said “Families for Freedom”.
“Our movement will not stop until every last prisoner is freed and found. We will continue to expand our movement to include every family with a detained or missing person, across religions, political beliefs or ethnicities”, it added. “We have been intimidated and told not to speak out. But we will not be silenced. We are crying out to this unjust world that we want our loved ones back”.
AGPS continues to call on the Syrian government to disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinians forcibly disappeared in state-run dungeons.
AGPS believes that the arbitrary internment of Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria amounts to a war crime.
Thousands of families continue to call out for freedom and justice for their loved ones who have been detained and forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime and armed groups.
Human rights group “Families for Freedom” has urged the United Nations Security Council to pressurize the Syrian government to free all prisoners, reveal the condition of victims of enforced disappearance, and lift the gag orders imposed on prisoners’ names and the burial places of torture victims.
“We demand you immediately use your power and influence to free all of Syria’s detained and disappeared who are still alive”, a letter figuring on the group’s home page reads. “We demand the location of the burial sites of those who have been executed or tortured to death. We demand justice for the detained and disappeared and we want those who killed them to be held to account.”
According to the group, hundreds of thousands of civilians are detained or disappeared, the majority of them at the hands of the Syrian regime.
“Our position is against enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and all parties to the conflict. We want to mobilize the public to pressure all sides to comply with our demands”, said “Families for Freedom”.
“Our movement will not stop until every last prisoner is freed and found. We will continue to expand our movement to include every family with a detained or missing person, across religions, political beliefs or ethnicities”, it added. “We have been intimidated and told not to speak out. But we will not be silenced. We are crying out to this unjust world that we want our loved ones back”.
AGPS continues to call on the Syrian government to disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinians forcibly disappeared in state-run dungeons.
AGPS believes that the arbitrary internment of Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria amounts to a war crime.
