A human rights report documents the enforced disappearance of 1,800 Palestinian detainees in Syria
The “Working Group for the Palestinian of Syria” said in a report on the occasion of
The “International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances” documented the names of 1,800 Palestinian detainees who were forcibly disappeared in Syria.
The group added that the documented data belong to Palestinian people, including activists, human rights defenders, journalists, doctors and others, who were forcibly disappeared or arrested in one of the security branches of the Assad regime.
The group pointed out that, “the detainees in the security branches were subjected to all kinds of violence and torture, and some of them were killed because of poor health care and the difficult humanitarian conditions in the prisons of the Assad regime.”
The group pointed out that it had documented 631 deaths of Palestinian male and female detainees in the detention centers of the Assad regime as a result of torture.
The group pointed out that the real number of deaths in Syrian prisons may be greater than what has been documented, as a result of the permanent concealment of the security services of the Assad regime, and their concealment of information about detainees and detainees, in addition to the fears of the victims’ families of announcing the death of their relatives under torture for fear of arrest and prosecutions by the Assad regime.
It is noteworthy that the Action Group for Palestinian Syria has issued several reports documenting cases of disappearances of Palestinians in Syria, including “Enforced Disappearance 1”, “Forced Disappearance 2” and “Photo Massacre”, to shed light on the victims of Palestinian refugees who were killed in Syria Because of torture and enforced disappearance.
