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SHRC 
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) calls on the president Bashar al-Asad on this day (30th August), the international day of the disappeared to disclose the fate of about twenty thousand disappeared detainees, arrested and detained in the early eighties of the last century but they have never been released nor their fates were disclosed by the Syrian Authorities.
Three decades have already elapsed since they vanished in the Syrian prisons, however it was not known whether they are still alive or have died in custody. The location of their detention or their burial was not disclosed also.
It is the responsibility of the Syrian authorities to disclose the fate of each vanished individual whose story will not be terminated as such. Each one has a family and relatives who are very eager to know his fate and the reason why he vanished in prison for this long period.
The Syrian Human Rights Committee calls on the president Bashar al-Asad to settle the issue of the disappeared in the Syrian prisons, to disclose their fates, to release the alive ones and to clarify the fate of those who passed away in jail, and to identify where they have been buried, and to grant their families the right to move their remains to the families’ cemetery, to receive compensation and to regain consideration to those who died in custody.
The Syrian Human Rights Committee would bring to mind that ignoring this issue of the disappeared will complicate it. it is a right that does not invalid by the passage of time and the Syrian authorities will give account of the disappeared sooner or later.
SHRC also calls for the release of those who vanished in Sednaya prison such as Nizar Rastanawi and other scores of prisoners, in additions to hundreds of other detainees such as the elderly jurist and lawyer Haytham al-Maleh, Muhannad al-Hasani, students Tal al-Mallouhi and Ayat Ahmad, Mashal al-Tammo and others.
Syrian Human Rights Committee
30/8/2010
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