Two persons from Sheikh Maskin die under torture in regime’s prisons after 18 months of detention

SOHR activists have documented the death of two persons from Sheikh Maskin in the northern countryside of Daraa after nearly 18 months of detention, affected by the wounds they had after being tortured in regime’s prisons.

As more people died, the number of civilians who have died under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, rose to 16,168 fatalities documented by names: 15,980 men and young men, 125 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen.

 Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the number of people who were killed, executed and died in regime’s prisons exceeded 104,000 people. Over 83% of the total toll were killed, and died in these prisons between May 2013 and October 2015. SOHR sources have also confirmed that more than 30,000 detainees were killed in the notorious prison of Sednaya, while the second largest percentage of killing was in the Air Force Intelligence department.