After over 18 months of detention | Young man from al-Suwaidaa dies under torture in Sydnaya prison

SOHR activists have reported that a young man from Salkhad in the southern countryside of al-Suwaidaa died under torture by guards in the regime’s military prison of Sydanya, after being arrested over a year and a half ago. It is worth noting that the victim was arrested in April 2020 following fierce clashes between Sheikh al-Karama Forces and an armed group affiliated to regime security service in Salkhad city, which left several members of Sheikh al-Karama Forces dead, while other young men from the city were arrested at that time. According to SOHR sources, the family of the victim know that he died when his brother, a regime soldier, asked about him, but the security services informed him that he died four months ago.

 

SOHR has documented the death of 47,506 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,103 men 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.