After over two years of detention | Young man dies under torture in Sednaya prison

Al-Raqqah province: SOHR activists have reported that a civilian from Tel Abyad district in al-Raqqah countryside died under torture in the notorious prison of Sednaya, where he was arrested over two years ago. The victim was arrested, in September 2019, with his niece who was with special needs from Hasso Ratla village in Tel Abyad district, while they were heading from the Syrian capital, Damascus, towards north-eastern Syria.

 

The two men were arrested because the “victim’s niece didn’t have an ID and for sneaking to regime-held areas”.

 

SOHR has documented the death of 47,508 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,105 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.