The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Mysterious circumstances | Body of unidentified man found showing signs of tor*ture in Homs

Homs province: The body of an unidentified man was found killed in mysterious circumstances and showing signs of torture and bruises in the face, on the road of Al-Makramiya in northern Homs countryside, with no information regarding the motives behind the crime.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 224 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2024, where domestic violence and armed robberies were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 248 fatalities: 13 children, 46 women and 188 young and adult men. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

* Daraa: 72 murder crimes left 67 men, five children and 12 women dead.

* Rif Dimashq: 42 murder crimes left 34 men, three children and ten women dead.

* Homs: 26 murder crimes left 22 men, a little girl and four women dead.

* Al-Suwaidaa: 23 murder crimes left 16 men, a little boy and seven women dead.

* Hama: 16 murder crimes left 13 men, four women and two children dead.

* Tartus: Ten murder crimes left eight men, a child and a woman dead.

* Deir Ezzor: 11 murder crimes left nine men and two women dead.

* Damascus: Eight murder crimes left two women and seven men dead.

* Latakia: Eight murder crimes left seven men and two women dead.

* Aleppo: Nine murder crimes left six men and three women dead.

* Al-Hasakah: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

* Al-Quneitra: One murder crime left a man dead.