The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After eight years of arrest| Young man killed under torture in regime prison

Aleppo province: SOHR activists reported death of a young man from Tal Refa’at in Aleppo countryside due to torture in the military Sydanya prison after eight years detention.

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 47,495 fatalities, all documented by names: 47,093men and young men, 339 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.