The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Regime prisons | Military police informs civilian of his wife’s death, two months after her arrest

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that the military police in the neighbourhood of Al-Qaboun, summoned a civilian from countryside of Deir ez-Zor, informing him of the death of his wife in the regime prisons, to collect her body from the Tishreen military hospital.

The woman was arrested at an immigration and passport center belonging to the regime forces two months ago.

The number of civilians killed in regime prisons has risen to 16,180 civilians documented by the Syrian Observatory : 15,992 men and young men, 125 children under the age of eighteen and 64 women since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, out of 104,000, the Syrian Observatory had learnt that they died inside regime prisons.

The Syrian Observatory had obtained information from a number of reliable sources which confirmed that civilians had been executed and killed inside Syrian regime and intelligence prisons, including more than 83 percent who were executed and killed inside these prisons between May 2013 and October 2015, SOHR sources also confirmed that more than 30,000 of detainees were killed in the notorious Saydnaya prison, while the second most dominant percentage was in regime Air-Force intelligence prisons.