(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many young men in the eastern town of Al-Muhasan in Deir Ezzor province have joined the revolution since its early days and heavy prices are still being paid.
Muhannad al-Jassim, who left the Journalism school at Damascus University of Damascus, was one of them.
He joined the Syrian resistance battalions, and then he was arrested and tortured to death in the regime security on January 8, 2013, after four months of detention.
Al-Jassem’s name was published along with 8,000 detainees killed under torture by Zaman al-Wasl in 2018.
His family identified his body after one of his friends saw it on Facebook.
Al-Jassim, who was born in 1991, was one of the first participants in the peaceful movement in rural Deir Ezzor.
He participated in most Fridays demonstrations; he also contributed with a number of his colleagues in raising funds for the displaced from the city of Homs and accommodated them in his town.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 215,000 people were arrested by Syrian security since the revolution erupted in March 2011. (4,500 of them are women and 9,000 are less than 18).
The report said 2630 detainees were tortured to death, and 70,000 cases documented as enforced disappearance.
Muhannad joined the armed movement of Al-Ansar battalion in Deir Ezzor, with other young men from his town, where he participated with them in order to free al-Aridi neighborhood from Al-Assad forces and allied militias.
Concerning his activities in the media, Muhannad worked with the agency of DPN which becomes lately the channel of Deir Ezzor.
Al-Jassim was arrested on September 27, 2012 in front of his house in the old airport district by a number of the regime Shabihah (thugs).
A footage founded in a mobile phone belongs to one of regime militants showed showed a number of ‘Shabihah’ pouring boiled water on Muhannad’s back.
His father, the ex- player Adnan al-Jassim and the Syrian football player in the late eighties was arrested for two months, just because Muhannad’s SIM card was by his name.
His family members spent months looking for his detention place but they knew later on that he was held by Military Intelligence Division (291) from a former prisoner, who accused the Brigadier General Yousef Abdeh of ordering crimes against humanity and killing the detainees without trial.
“Al-Jassim was martyred on January 8, 2013 because of torture and lack of health care. He had been religiously committed, and had often tell the detainees to be patient when the scourge” According to the former prisoner who told his family about his state.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 215,000 people were arrested by Syrian security since the revolution erupted in March 2011. (4,500 of them are women and 9,000 are less than 18).
The report said 2630 detainees were tortured to death, and 70,000 cases documented as enforced disappearance.
Zaman al-Wasl seeks to shed the light on the fate of the Syrian disappeared and victims of arbitrarily arrest as well as its search engines aim to provide data and information for the local and international human rights organisations and civil rights advocates.
Since the revolution erupted in 2011, more than 560,000 people have been killed, and more than 6 million people have been displaced.
Zaman Al Wasl
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