The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Four persons from Daraa killed under torture in regime security prisons

Killing and torture continue in Syrian regime prisons, which includes tens of thousands of missing and tens of thousands of dead bodies, which were killed by regime authorities and its intelligence.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the death of four people from the area of Ghbagheb in Daraa governorate, under torture in regime security prisons, after their arrest nearly a year ago.

The four victims were defectors from regime forces and had already settled thier situation with regime after regime forces took control of Daraa, but Syrian regime intelligence arrested them despite Russian promises and guarantee.

The number of civilians killed in regime prisons has risen to 16,161 civilians documented by the Syrian Observatory : 15,973 men and young men, 125 children under the age of eighteen and 64 women since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, out of 104,000, the Syrian Observatory had learnt that they died inside regime prisons.

The Syrian Observatory had obtained information from a number of reliable sources which confirmed that civilians had been executed and killed inside Syrian regime and intelligence prisons, including more than 83 percent who were executed and killed inside these prisons between May 2013 and October 2015, SOHR sources also confirmed that more than 30,000 of detainees were killed in the notorious Saydnaya prison, while the second most dominant percentage was in regime airforce intelligence prisons.