Arrested nine years ago | Civilian from Idlib dies under torture in regime prison

Idlib Province: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that a civilian from Idlib died under brutal torture and poor medical care in regime prison, after being arrested nearly nine years ago.

It is worth noting that the victim was arrested in January 2013 by State Security Intelligence in Idlib and transferred to Security State headquarters in Damascus.

SOHR has documented the death of 47,524 civilians under torture in the regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,121 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.