Having been deported by Turkish authorities and struck reconciliation deal | Civilian from Madaya dies under torture in regime prison

SOHR sources have reported that a young man died under torture in a prison of the regime’s military security service, after having been deported by Turkish authorities and settled his security situation in the Syrian regime military security branch in Aleppo.

 

The victim was from Madaya town in Rif Dimashq province and he had left to Turkey, searching for work and seeking to improve his living conditions. However, the young man later was deported from Turkey to Aleppo and he decided to return to his hometown, before he was arrested and remained imprisoned until his family was informed of his death.

 

On November 9, SOHR sources reported that a civilian from Ratyan area in Jabal Sam’an in western Aleppo countryside died under torture in Saydnayah prison after ten years of detention.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of people who have died under torture in regime prisons and security centres since early 2023 has reached 34, including a regime army defector, a young man with a settled-status, a member of the regime’s military security service, a member of a local faction in Al-Suwaidaa, a regime military correspondent and a former member of the “Free Army.”