Arrested nearly five years ago | Opposition fighter dies under torture in regime prison

SOHR sources have documented the death of a young man from al-Asharah city in eastern Deir Ezzor under torture in regime prison. It is worth noting that the young man, who was a member of the opposition faction of “Basha’er al-Nasr”, was arrested in Qalamoun area in Rif Dimashq nearly five years ago.

 

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 16,259 fatalities, all documented by names: 16,070 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.