In the frame of revealing the fate of more detainees after the killing of more than 16000 detainees in the regime’s detention centers…about 25 families from the eastern neighborhoods of the capital Damascus are shocked by the death of their sons in similar circumstances
Damascus Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the civil registry departments in the government of the Syrian regime, are continuing to issue death certificates of detainees who died under torture, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; tens of families of Barzeh neighborhood, headed during the recent weeks, to Al-Nufus civil registry departments of the regime’s government, in order to register their sons, after they have received information confirms their death in the regime detention centers under torture, and the sources confirmed that the families whose number reached about 25 families in Barzeh neighborhood of Damascus, have received death certificates of their sons at Al-Nufus civil registry departments of the Syrian regime, where their death was registered in 2014 and 2015, without determining the causes of death.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 16055 civilian casualties, including 15866 man and young man, 125 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen, who have been killed out of 60000 detainees at least, all of them have been killed inside these branches and in Sednaya prison in more than 7 years, either as a result of direct physical torture or deprivation of food and medicine. And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the case of Syrian detainees being turned into pressure papers controlled by the players on the Syrian ground. The case of their release and the work towards emptying the prisons was a game of interests, manipulated by international bodies as well as local and regional parties, to use it in their negotiations and agreements, and this let-down of detainees’ case has resulted in thousands of casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 28th of July 2018, that it monitored regime’s authorities handing over of arrested people who were killed to the civil registry secretariats in several Syrian areas, including areas in the Western Ghouta, al-Qalamoun, Aleppo, al-Hasakah, the countryside of Idlib and several other places, these names of detainees were killed in prisons and detentions as a result of torture, starvation, diseases, and other conditions within regime’s detentions, where lists of 4000 names have been handed over to the civil registry secretariats to register their names on the death lists, which raised resentment of thousands of families of the detainees in the prisons of the regime forces, fearing for the fate of their children who they have no information about since they were arrested, because the regime forces prevented them from visiting their children, and reliable sources suggested that that happened due to the acceleration of political process related to the Syrian case, together with the acceleration of the military operation of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities on the Syrian territory, while concerns continue because of the number of names that will be sent by the regime’s authorities to the civil registry secretariats in the Syrian provinces, cities and towns may increase more, although hundreds of civilians have been released consecutively during the last 2 months away from the media spotlight, where the regime’s authorities successively released them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented more than 140000 detainees, of who are still in prisons and jails of the Syrian regime and who are suffering from extremely poor and disastrous humanitarian conditions, amid physical and psychological torture, insults and beating on a daily basis, and regarding the casualties under torture; the regime forces delivered the bodies of some of them to their relatives, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by several reliable sources with that information, in addition to being informed by others that their children had died inside the detentions and that they were asked to issue a death certificate, also they forced the relatives of other casualties of who had died under torture within regime’s jails; to sign declarations that they were killed by opposition rebel groups, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information that there are a lot of cases of citizens killed under torture within regime’s detention centers, but their families and relatives didn’t declaration their death out of fear of security prosecution and arrest.