The regime’s detention centers still close its doors against the freedom of more than 140000 detainees and tens of thousands of mothers wait for their sons to be released and the fate dispersed others

The Syrian feeling of pain prevails, and the cries for help almost cover and spread over all other sounds, except the sounds of war which many do not want it to stop, to cause pain after another, until the fate disperses the Syrian families and divides them, as the hell of war increases day after another devouring the Syrian people and escalates their pains, in a continuous tragic scene since 2011, and those in the prisons of the regime and the militias loyal to it, have been still suffering from an unprecedented tragedy, of torture, humiliation, insulting, starvation and murder.

The tragedy was not limited to only inside the prisons, but also it went out with corpses which were brought our of these prisons, and reached to be a tragedy that the detainees’ families live, as tens of thousands of mothers wait for are still waiting for their sons, perhaps fate will bring them out of the grip of death which the regime’s members practice against those who were taken their prisons and detention centers, on charge of demonstrating against the regime, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored one of the cases in which death ended the wait of a mother lost her sons and grandsons, where Najah Qasim al-Bateen, the Syrian woman which is descended from Nawa Town, in the north-western countryside of Idlib, died at the threshold of hope, which did not achieve her wish, thus, she left her life waiting for her son, who was being held in the Syrian prisons, and her relatives informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime forces arrested her son while he was trying to reach the Lebanese territory, to catch up with his two brothers in order to work there, but the regime authorities arrested him and took him to one of their detention centers, then, and during the imprisonment of her son, the mother mourned by the death of two of her sons and the death of 3 of her grandsons, to wait for her arrested son to be released, but the death hovering over Syria, overtook this Syrian woman, after she became one of tens of thousands of women and families who are waiting for their sons, including 3 brother of the family of Aal Sahyoni in Baniyas city, who were arrested in 2011, and they are still in the prisons of the regime forces, where their father died without being able to see them free again.

Although the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the past months the release of hundreds of detainees from several prisons and detention centers, and the time of imprisonment was different between one detainee and another, while tens of thousands more are still in prisons and under detention in tens of security camps, prisons and detention centers of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in their controlled areas within the Syrian territory, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented more than 140000 detainees, of who are still in prisons and jails of the Syrian regime, and the  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was able document 14755 civilian casualties, they are 14576 man and young man, 120 children under the age of eighteen and 59 woman over the age of eighteen, who have died since the start of the Syrian revolution in mid-March 2011 until today the 14th of April 2018, out of at least 60000 detainees who were killed inside these branches and Sednaya Prison in more than 7 years, either as a result of direct physical torture or deprivation of food and medicine, and the regime forces handed over the bodies of some of the detainees to their relatives, while others were informed that their sons had died inside detentions and asked them to issue their death certificate, and the other people who sons died under torture in regime’s jails were forced to sign declarations that opposition rebel groups had killed them, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information indicating that there were many cases of citizens killed under torture within regime’s jails, in which their parents and relatives didn’t declare their death because they were afraid of prosecution by regime’s security or detention.

And after turning the case of tens of thousands of abductees and detainees to a paper manipulated by various parties, whether it was the regime and its allies or the opposition Syrian parties, and hiding the fil after that completely. The Syrian Observatory calls for a strong re-activation of the detainee case, after being absent by parties that made other files and interests their priorities, we in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights call on the United Nations envoy, Mr. Stefan Demistura, the international actors as well as regional and international organizations to be do a diligent and serious work in this file, so that the release of tens of thousands of detainees and abductees becomes the priority of any political meeting, conference or negotiations, and not just to say but to have practical steps to start releasing the detainees, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights urges the international community and in particular the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Security Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to act immediately and put pressure on the Syrian regime, in order to release what is left of the alive detainees, and to work to form a court to put executioners killers and whomever give the orders, those who have lost their hearts and consciences and have killed so many of the Syrian people.