The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Atrocities in regime prisons | Young man from Al-Atareb city dies under torture

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a young man from Al-Atareb city in the western countryside of Aleppo due to brutal torture in regime prisons.

The victim was arrested four years ago in Tartous city for unknown reasons.

Yesterday, his family was informed of his death in prison.

SOHR has documented the death of 47,521 civilians under torture in the regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,118 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 105,000 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 Saydnaya alone, while the second-largest percentage of killing occurred in the Air Force Intelligence detention facilities or prisons.

SOHR stresses the need for holding accountable all those who aided and abetted the killing and torturing of Syrian civilians in regime prisons, and warns against indifference by the warring powers in Syria to the issue of detainees and forcibly disappearing.

SOHR also appeals to the international community to seriously intensify its efforts to disclose the fate of the detainees and forcibly disappeared people and identify.