(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee in Sednaya prison revealed that thousands of detainees there were killed in Tishreen Military hospital in Damascus, as the hospital had designated small rooms to each military of civil prison, in those rooms many cases of killing took place.
The former detainee in the Red prison in Sednaya told Zaman Al Wasl reporter in Hama the 4 officers in his dormitory were killed in less than a year period after visiting the hospital for different diseases. Therefore, detainees used to refuse going to hospital and prefer dying in prison, but many times they were taken to the hospital by force, and then they were killed.
The former detainee (H.A), Lieutenant Regiment in special forces54, explained that he needed to be taken to hospital in October 2013 because of scabies and he was put in a room supervised by an Assistant and a soldier of the regime Army, he confirmed that many patients came to hospital unconscious and then they died, he expected that they were given injections might have caused death.
He expected that Colonel Abdul Haseeb Kurdi from "Alsamaalal" village of Huleh region, First Lieutenant Aladdin Owaid from "Tal-Dahab" and Lieutenant Ayham Guenzuah from Hefeh city in Lattakia, were killed in the same way after visiting the hospital.
The detainee detailed that 6 out of 20 prisoners who were defected officers of different ranks died of different reasons within a year period (mid 2013- mid 2014) among them the above mentioned officers. He explained that different reasons were behind high death rate which reached to 20%, most important was torture, then lack of cleanness and hygiene, beside spread in infectious disease like skin infections and typhoid and scabies, which were worsened by malnutrition and lack of treatment and antibiotics.
The former prisoner detailed that food was too little in his dormitory which hosted 30 prisoners, as all a prisoner got was a glass of rice or bulgur, a loaf and a half of bread, and 3 pieces of potatoes, which caused malnutrition and skinniness as his weight reached 49 kg only.
"Many times we wished death to some patients of our colleagues to take their food and their clothes” the detainee mentioned in pain and added that till now lots of prisoners eat olives’ seeds after grinding them and eggs and potatoes peels and chicken bones.
The prisoner explained that the red prison is separate from other buildings of Sednaya prison, and its design is similar to the Mercedes sign, consists of 5 layers, 3 of them are above the ground, and two layers underground, each floor consists of 60 dormitory each one 50-30 detainees, which means that the number of detainees could ranges between "15-20" thousand. He stressed that all detainees remain in prison for more than three years, many of them die because of torture in general or torture after family visit, or because of disease or cold, as the temperature reaches to minus 10 at night and all covers they had were 2 military blankets.
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