Torture victims | Young man from rural Daraa dies in Saidnaya prison

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a civilian from Jilin town in Daraa countryside under torture in Saidnaya prison, after two years of detention.

 

It is worth noting that the victim had defected from regime forces before he settled his security situation when regime forces recaptured Daraa.

 

As more people perish in detentions, the number of civilians who have died under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution rose to 16,216 fatalities, all documented by names: 16,027 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 killed, executed and/or died in regime prisons exceeded 104,000 people. Over 83% of the total death toll were killed and/or 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 alone, while the second largest percentage of killing occurred in the Air Force Intelligence detention facilities or prisons.