The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Arrested over a year ago | Young man from Daraa dies under torture in Sydnaya prison

Daraa province: SOHR sources have documented the death of a young man From Msifra town in the eastern countryside of Daraa under torture in the regime prison of Sydnaya. The young man had served in the ranks of opposition factions during their control of Daraa. After regime forces regained control of the entire province, the man preferred to stay in Daraa. However, he was arrested by the security services and taken to Sydnaya prison a year ago.

 

SOHR has documented the death of 47,509 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,106 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.