(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Military Intelligence has transferred 34 former rebels to Sednaya military prison near the capital, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday.
Most of the detainees are originally from the village of al-Thyabiya south of Damascus who agreed on the reconciliation deal in 2017 and laid down their arms.
Most of the Syrian opposition detainees have underwent sham trials before military courts and were sometimes forced to make confessions under torture, according to the International Amnesty.
The Syrian regime is preparing to hold a series of new field trials against dozens of detainees, after being transferred from security branches and central prisons to the Sednaya military prison, the Violations Documentation Center in Syria said early December.
A report published by the Washington Post daily last year said Bashar al-Assad’s army is doubling down on executions of political prisoners, with military judges accelerating the pace they issue death sentences.
Several human rights reports confirmed that Assad had committed crimes against humanity in Sednaya prison with an Amnesty International report describing it as a "human slaughterhouse".
The Detainees Association of Sednaya Prison released in November testimonies of torture survivors of the notorious detention facility.
According to the report, 100% of the detainees had been tortured physically and 97.8% had been tortured psychologically.
The regime security is practicing 24 methods of psychological torture and 8 methods of sexual torture inside Sdenaya prison, including beatings sexual organs.
The majority of the detainees were deprived of food and basic needs, the association said.
On November 25, the Assad security transferred five political detainees from Sweida central prison to notorious Sednaya Military prison, according to Syrians For Truth and Justice.
The names of the detainees are Zakaria Khriba, Zakaria Jahaym, Abdel Rahman Matar, Abdo Mousa and Sami Al-Ferra.
According to the International Conscience Movement, an NGO, more than 13,500 women have been jailed since the Syrian conflict began, while more than 7,000 women remain in detention, where they are subjected to torture, rape and sexual violence.
The Syrian regime has been practicing 72 torture methods gainast detainees in security chambers and military hospitals, SNHR said October.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), at least 183 cases of arbitrary arrests were documented in October, including 109 cases of enforced disappearance.
Syrian opposition sources said that more than 500,000 prisoners remain inside the prisons of the Syrian regime.
About 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point in the regime’s detention centers, including 130,000 individuals who are still detained or forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime, since the revolution erupted in March 2011, SNHR said.
The eight-year-old war has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and forced 13 million people from their homes, half of whom have left their shattered homeland.
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