Arrested ten years ago | Two sibling from eastern Ghouta die under torture in Saydnaya prison and regime security services notify their families

 

Syrian Observatory stresses the need to hold accountable those involved in killing and torturing Syrian civilians inside regime prisons

SOHR reliable sources have reported that the regime’s security services informed the families of two siblings from Harasta city about their death under torture in Sednaya prison “human slaughterhouse” on January 13.

According to the Syrian Observatory, the two victims were arrested in September 2012 in a raid by the security forces in Harasta, Eastern Ghouta, where security arrested a number of young men and men on charges of “participating and organizing anti-regime demonstrations”.

 

Accordingly, the number of civilians died under torture in regime prisons since early January 2022 has risen to eight, all documented by SOHR.

 

As more fatalities are recorded and updated regularly, the number of civilians dying under torture in regime prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution has risen to 47,527, all documented by names: 47,124 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, the period when the Iranian were supervising regime’s prisons. 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.

 

We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), warn against the ongoing indifference by the warring powers in Syria to the issue of detainees and forcibly disappeared. We also appeal to the international community to seriously intensify its efforts to disclose the fate of the detainees and forcibly disappeared people, and identify and hold the perpetrators accountable.