Regime prisons in February 2022 | 45 people die under torture, mostly from Rif Dimashq
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) condemns ongoing killings in prisons and stresses the need for holding accountable all those who have been involved, aided, and abetted the killing and torturing of Syrian civilians
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), in February 2022, documented the death of 45 civilians under torture in regime prisons, the majority of whom were from Rif Dimashq. According to Syrian Observatory documents and statistics, the majority of the victims’ relatives received death notifications of their beloved via regime officers and dignitaries, and elders of areas controlled by the regime.
The torture victims are distributed regionally as follows:
Rif Dimashq: 39 people from the areas of Deir Al-Asafir, Zabdin, Hatita Al-Turkman, and Al-Rahbiya.
Idlib: Four people from Jisr Al-Shughur, Jarjanaz, Ariha, and Kafruma.
Homs: One civilian from Tirmalah village in the northern countryside.
Daraa: A young man from Daraa camp.
Here are further details of those deaths:
February 1: The family of a young man from Jergenaz town, southeast of Idlib, was informed of his death under torture, after being arrested by the regime’s security services more than ten years earlier.
February 7: A civilian from Jisr Al-Shughour, west of Idlib, died under torture in a regime’s prison, after nearly ten years of detention. In 2012, the victim was arrested from his house during a raid campaign carried out by regime forces that broke into civilian houses at that time and arrested several people.
February 12: A civilian from Ariha died under brutal torture in Saydnayah prison, years after being arrested.
February 12: A young man from Al-Rahiba city in Al-Qalmon Al-Sharqy area in Rif Dimashq died under brutal torture in the Air-Force Intelligence prisons nearly a year after his arrest. His parents received his body from the Air-Force Intelligence branch to bury him in the city’s graveyard.
February 13: A civilian from Kafroma in the Idlib countryside died under brutal torture and poor medical care in Saydnaya prison. He was arrested ten years earlier when regime forces raided Kafroma town.
February 14: A young man from Tirma’la village in northern Homs countryside died in a regime prison, after being detained for three years.
February 21: The regime security services delivered death certificates of 38 prisoners, including nine members of one family, who died under torture in regime prisons after being arrested following regime regaining control of eastern Ghouta in March 2018, to elders of the following areas in the southern part of eastern Ghouta: Deir Al-Asafir, Zabdin, and Hatita Al-Turkman.
February 22, regime forces delivered the body of an 18-year-old man, who was killed by regime forces after he was shot and arrested on February 19, to his family. The victim was collecting scrap in an area near the Air Force Intelligence branch southern of the Al-Hobob administration building in eastern Daraa, where he was hit with several gunshots before regime forces arrested him. The young man's body was later delivered to his family, where gunshot wounds and signs of torture were on his body.
The observatory concluded by saying: We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), condemn the ongoing killing in prisons of Al-Assad’s regime and warn against the ongoing indifference by the warring powers in Syria to the issue of detainees and forcibly disappeared. We also appeal to the international community to seriously intensify its efforts to disclose the fate of the detainees and forcibly disappeared people, and identify and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Source: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR),
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