The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Torture victims | Old man from Daraa dies in regime prison, after two years of detention

SOHR activists have documented the death of an old man from Sheikh Maskin city in the north-western countryside of Daraa under torture in regime prison. It is worth noting that the man, who is aged 65, was arrested nearly two years ago.

 

On March 25, Observatory activists documented the death of a young man from Nawa city in west Daraa countryside, under torture regime prison. It is worth noting that the young man had struck a reconciliation deal when the regime took control of Daraa in 2018. However, regime security services arrested him and tortured him to death. It is worth noting that the victim’s family was informed of his death on March 24.

 

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 16,254 fatalities, all documented by names: 16,065 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.