On 18/09/2017- the day on which it was agreed that he was to be released- the Syrian regime apparatus delivered the dead body of citizen Musab al-Suweid to his family. Musab al-Suweid (Homs, 1966) was the son of a prominent member of opposition, Sheikh Mahmoud Suweid, who was kidnapped by the Syrian apparatus in 1980 […]
Fath al-Sham Court Fines Activists for Children’s Party
On 1/11/2016, a Shariah Court of the Fath al-Sham group (formerly An-Nusra Front) decreed the release of civilian activists on bail, after they had been sentenced to prison and fined. The court terminated the prison sentence due to what it described as consideration of the “conditions of war”. Forces of An-Nusra had arrested Firas Haj […]
Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Thursday 18 August Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant torture and other ill-treatment in Syrian prisons are laid bare in a damning new report published by Amnesty International today which estimates that 17,723 people have died in […]
Security Forces Raid As-Suwaida Prison
As-Suwaida Central Prison has been witnessing a prisoner mutiny since Thursday, when prisoners refused to hand over four detainees whom, it is believed, will be executed, and in protest over the ill treatment they are experiencing. On Friday, security forces raided the prison after they had cut off all electricity and water reaching the prisoners, […]
Special Report on Hama Central Prison
The prisoners of the Terrorism and Disturbance wing of the Hama Central Prison have begun a mutiny in protest at the torture practiced on them by a group recently created by the prison director. The mutiny meant that the “regime protectors” battalion had to be called to the prison. A video leaked by prisoners showed […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 6/11/2013
Sixty-nine civilians were killed in Syria on Wednesday 6/11/2013, among them ten women and ten children. The largest number killed was in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 26 were killed, among them two nurses, four from the village of Qaara and three from Sabir (rural Damascus) that were killed in clashes. Twelve from Homs […]
Daily Report of Human Rights Violations in Syria: 05/11/2013
Fifty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Tuesday 5/11/2013, among them two women and three children. The largest number killed was documented in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 22 were killed, including nine from rural Damascus that perished in clashes in Maheen, as well as 4 civilians from Adra (rural Damascus) that were summarily […]
Daily Report of Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 2/10/2013
Seventy-five people were killed in Syria on 2/10/2013, among them five women and a child. A fifth of those killed perished in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 15 civilians were killed, including a civilian from Yabroud, a child from Qatna and three from Dumar who were killed under torture. In Homs, 14 were killed […]