(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security forces have threntend to storm Hama Central Prison in two weeks if the detainees keep their rebellion over death sentences for fellow inmates, source told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday.
The Syrian police backed by the political Security Division seek to to transfer 23 political detainees to the notorious Saydnaya prison where they might be executed.
Last November, Syria's Field Court sentenced 11 detainees to death in Hama prison, 210 km (130 miles) northwest of Damascus.
The detainees in all sections and wings decided to participate in a hunger strike in order to push the regime to suspend the execution of death sentences by the Combat-Terrorism Court.
In May 2016, the prisoners seized the prison and took hostages from guards after five inmates were to be taken to Saydnaya prison for the execution of death sentences passed by an extra-judicial military tribunal.
But a deal was brokered with the regime and ended the mutiny.
Then, the regime agreed to most of the detainees’ demands to release those political detainees held without charges.
Since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, more than 200,000 people have been detained, and more than 67,000 people have been forcibly disappeared.
Zaman Al Wasl
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