More than 2100 detainees killed inside the regime’s detention facilities

More than 2100 prisoners have died inside the regime’s cellars since the beginning of this year.

 

The number of the arrested persons who SOHR could document their death inside the regime’s cellars and intelligence branches reached to 2108 in 2014, where the Syrian authorities turned over some of corpses to their families while they told others that their sons died inside the detention facilities instructing them to collect death certificates for them. In addition to, they forces some families of those who died inside the cellars to sign on declarations that the opposition groups killed their sons.

 

Among the people who were killed inside the regime’s cellars, barracks and intelligence branches, there are 27 children under the age of 18 and 11 woman. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has received information that there are a lot of people who tortured to death inside the regime’s cellars but their families are reticent about not mentioning the death of their sons because they are afraid of prosecution and arrest.

 

It is noteworthy that, the bloodiest months inside the regime’s jails had been June and July, while the provinces of Rif Dimashq and Homs headed the highest rate of deaths who died inside the regime jails.

 

We in SOHR express our concerns about the lives of dozens of thousands of missing detainees inside the regime’s jails, barracks and intelligence branches and about the destiny of 200000 prisoners, where we received information from persons released after they pay money to get out from the jails, as well as we received leaked information from inside the regime’s apparatus that there are thousands of cases of execution committed by the officers and jailors.

 

We in SOHR call upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the international envoy to Syria “Staffan de Mistura” to put pressure on the Syrian regime to release the doctor and 200000 other detainees from the regime’s cellars as well as to release the political opponents and defenders of human rights, including Abdul Aziz al- Khayyer, Khalil Ma’toq, Husein Eso, Bassam Sahyoni and Mazen Darwish, where we are afraid of torturing them to death like thousands of detainees.