The Syrian Network for Human Rights: Thousands of Syrian women are still detained in Assad regime’s prisons
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in its report entitled “Unshakable Voices” that at least 10,197 women are still detained at the hands of parties to the conflict in Syria since 2011, including 8,493 women are detained at the hands of Assad regime.
The report documented the killing of 115 women due to torture at the hands of parties to the conflict since March 2011 until 31 December 2023, it also documented no fewer than 10,060 sexual violence incidents against women at the hand of parties to the conflict and controlling forces in Syria.
The report documented no fewer than 21 women are forcibly disappeared by Assad regime forces were recorded as dead in the civil registry records since the beginning of 2018 until 31 December 2023.
The report documented at least 11 women who are forcibly disappeared by Assad regime forces were identified by the leaked photos of torture victims inside the military hospitals known as “Ceaser photos” since the beginning of 2015 until 31 December 2023.
The report confirmed that the Assad regime violated many articles relating to women, which were included in the Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1977, including “the prohibition of violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture, outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment, rape, enforced prostitution and any form of indecent assault.”
The report called on the international community and the UN Security Council to put pressure on all parties to the conflict and the controlling forces to release women arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared, and to provide protection and assistance to forcibly displaced women, including internally displaced and refugee women, and to pay attention to their special needs in the field of protection specifically.
