The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Over 60 days of detention | Young man killed in prison of Air-Force Intelligence service in Daraa

Daraa province: SOHR sources have reported that a young man died under torture in a regime’s prison. According to SOHR sources, the young man was an ex-militiaman in opposition factions in Daraa, and he was arrested on September 5, after storming his house in Da’el city by the Air-Force Intelligence service who took him to their branch in Daraa city where he died.

 

SOHR has documented the death of 47,507 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,104 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.