Assad security says 40 detainees die of heart attack as activists say die of torture

 State security claimed that 40 Syrian detainees had been died due to heart attacks, a well-informed source from the embattled neighborhood of Mezzeh in Damascus city, told Zaman Alwasl.

The Assad regime refused to deliver the detainees bodies to their relatives in the rebel-held district, “what assured that they were tortured to death,” Omar, an activist who preferred not to give his last name, said. 

Detainees in Syrian security branches are arbitrarily detained and tortured, according to Human Rights advocates.

Omar assured that being from Mezzeh or its orchards, the district which situated next the luxurious and fancy neighborhood of Mezzeh Villas, would bring more suffer to the people especially at the ‘enemy gates’ Assad’s checkpoints and inside the prisons cells.

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly documented widespread violations by Syrian regime security forces and officials, including enforced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary and incommunicado detentions of peaceful protesters, activists, humanitarian assistance providers, and doctors.

Assad's security department asked the neighborhood's Imam not to mourn the 40 detainees in one day, (As it should be according to the Islamic creed), but to lament two victims daily, Omar said

In relevant context, a photo for Syrian detainees had been died of hunger in security branches, sparkled outrage among cyber activists.

Syrian ‘Tahrir Souri’ group has obtained a rare photo from a security agent, who defected from state security branch 215 during the Syrian upraising, showing number of naked and slender bodies for Syrian detainees, seemed died of starvation.