Under the worthless Russian guarantees, regime’s intelligence arrest more than 700 of who returned to their controlled areas from neighboring countries and displacement camps, recruits hundreds
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources who confirmed that the regime forces and intelligence have been carrying out arrests in recent weeks against citizens returning to areas controlled by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities within Syrian territory, where the intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the arrests were carried out against returnees from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, regional countries, and other countries, as well as the arrests against returnees from camps at the Syrian north and the desert, and the Syrian Observatory documented arrests More than 700 people and they were interrogated, since the beginning of October until the 17th of November 2018, where most of them have been released, but more than 230 are still being held in different regime detention camps, after being taken their during raids or at checkpoints.
Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that hundreds of youths returning to the Syrian territory have also been taken to the conscription in regime’s ranks, while sources of the Syrian Observatory suggested that some detainees had been transferred to regime’s barracks to join the mandatory conscription service. And these operations of arrests and recruitment come in conjunction with arrests against citizens within areas of the “reconciliation and settlement”, which the regime forces were able to control after imposing their control through military operations and “reconciliations,” which ended in displacing those who rejected the “settlement” agreements with the regime to the Syrian north, where the fate of many detainees within the settlement areas is still unknown.
The reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Russian guarantees were worthless in the light of raids, arrests, and the conscription carried out by regime’s authorities, while the Russian forces are seeking to impose their presence through media allegations, trying to cover the abuses and violations of regime’s authorities and intelligence by encouraging the return of youths and men to areas of control of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, where most arrests took place in the provinces of Damascus and in the countryside of, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Latakia, and areas in the Syrian south, it worth mention that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources about the detainees in the prisons and detentions of the regime, of who have been imprisoned on the background of charges related to the Syrian revolution since March 2011, and in the details confirmed by the Syrian Observatory’s reliable sources: more than 104 Syrian citizen were executed, killed, and martyred in the prisons of the regime forces and its intelligence services, where more than 83% of them were liquidated, killed, and died in these camps between May 2013 and October 2015, the sources also confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that more than 30000 detainees were killed in the notorious prison of Sednaya, while the second predominant percentage was in the Air Intelligence branches run by the serial killer Jamil Al-Hassan, the General in the ranks of regime’s intelligence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from its own sources that Iran bears the primary responsibility with the regime of Bashar al-Assad in killing and liquidating the detainees and leaving them to their fate of hunger and sickness, as they used to supervise the prisons and jails of the regime forces and intelligence, until after the entry of the Russian forces in the Syrian conflict line in the end of September 2015, which took over the detainee file from the regime which used to promote it in the international forums and meetings, where the detainee file was changed.
Despite the fact that Russia took over the file, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored the failure of the Russians in releasing tens of thousands of detainees who are still inside regime’s prisons and detention centers, where more than 80000 prisoners are still alive in the prisons and detentions of the regime, some of whom have spent years in detention under disastrous humanitarian conditions, and the sources confirmed that some of the detainees died in dormitories as a result of their poor health, the significant reduction in food, and the lack of medical and health care, as well as torturing, beating, and insulting the detainees on various charges.