Tartous prison inmates continue mutiny in response to the “unfair verdict”

Tartous Province, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
Inmates of the Central Prison of Tartus are still carrying out their mutiny in prison, in protest against the ill-treatment of prisoners by the prison authorities, in addition to verdicts of “execution” life in prison, 12 years of jail and transferring inmates from the prison to Sednaya prison. The Syrian Observatory for human rights was aware that these verdicts were issued against detainees due to demonstrations and events that took place after the start of the Syrian revolution, they are about 70 prisoners out of more than 400 prisoners, while fears prevail the prison about what are things going to be, and about the reaction of the prison authorities on this mutiny, having reliable sources confirmed that the assistant police chief in Tartous promised detainees to enter a company of order-forces to the prison if the prisoners did not stop the mutiny.

Reliable sources confirmed to the observatory that prison authorities’ pressure on detainees, the failure to meet their demands and the unfair sentencing, are what developed things into a hunger strike and peaceful demands “without ruining”, while reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that prisoners loyal to the regime in criminal section of the prison are helping the police and prison authorities to suppress the mutiny, which started in the beginning at the political section of the prison and then was extended to include the criminal division also.