Regime authorities release 225 detainees from Damascus Central Prison (Adra)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the authorities of the regime are carrying out a process of releasing tens of prisoners from Damascus Central Prison (Adra), and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; the authorities of the regime started in the past 24 hours the process of releasing 225 prisoners from Damascus Central Prison, known as “Adra Prison”, of whom 95 were released on Thursday, the 23rd of June 2017, while the release of the other 130 will be completed today, the sources confirmed that the majority of the prisoners were from Homs and Hama provinces and were arrested because of events related to the Syrian revolution.
It is noteworthy that on May 2016, the Syrian Observatory received confirmed information from reliable sources within the regime’s security, the most important of which are the Air Intelligence and State Security services, as well as reliable sources in Sednaya military prison, reported that at least 60000 detainees have been killed inside these branches and in Sednaya prison during the past 5 years, either as a result of direct physical torture or deprivation of food and medicine.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights until today the 23rd of June 2017 was able to document the death of 14702 detainees, they are: 14531 men and young man, 114 children under the age of eighteen and 57 woman over the age of eighteen, since the start of the Syrian revolution on the 18th of March 2011, until the morning of the 23rd of June 2017, some of them the authorities of the Syrian regime have handed their bodies to their families, while others have been informed that their children have died inside the detentions, and they asked them to issue a death certificate for them, they also have forced some of the families whose sons were killed under torture in regime’s jails to sign declaration that they had been killed by opposition militant groups, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information at that time about the existence of many cases of citizens who were killed under torture within regime’s jails, in which their parents and relatives have kept the information about their death hidden, fearing security prosecution and arrest.