2630 Victims tortured to death, NGO

Committee against torture confirmed that Each State Party shall ensure that its competent authorities proceed to a prompt and impartial investigation, wherever there is reasonable ground to believe that an act of torture has been committee in any territory under its jurisdiction. Otherwise, the state will hold

the responsibility and its officials will hold individually the responsibility of that for that have " have accepted unauthorized acts such as these.

 Syrian Army , Shabiha and Security Forces practiced more horrible methods like genital cutting or cut the ears , we have more than 100 filmed and recorded , where security elements and Shabiha filmed those operations as they were having fun with .

Unfortunately all of those cases do not take the same reaction or echo against one video for brutal condemned crime committed by a solider in Syrian Free Army and talked about different media agencies all around the world, not to mention President and Foreign Minister of Russia, Iran Foreign Minister, Lebanese Hezbullah secretary general although all of them knew and even participated in much more wider systematic crimes and not individual.

 According to SNHR estimations, Syrian Government arrested at least 215.000 Syrian citizens, including 9,000 under the age of 18 and 4500 women ( 1200 student colleague )

Among the 215.000 arrested there are at least 70.000 are forced disappeared.

All this according to estimates conducted by Syrian network for human rights, it is very difficult to get all the detainees names because of the refusal of hundreds of families to provide us with statements of their sons fear of torture, but despite all the difficulties we could document nearly 80 thousand name of detainees registered by name, place and date.

Main Syrian Security Branches  

 Military Security , Air Security , General Security and Political Security , all have been practiced various kinds of  torturing methods against all detainees, degrees of torture vary between detainees , but in general considered one of the worst and most horrible methods that violate human rights dignity and all international conventions.

 Practicing Systematic daily torturing methods for long hours led to kill 2630 victims; including 85 children, 27 women , 114 Syrian Free Army ( less than 5 % and all the other victims are civilian activists , reporters , human rights activist and protestors ), according to statistic conducted by SNHR since the beginning of Syrian revolution to 10/6/2013 , and they are among the 92901 victims that announced by UN newest statistic, but those victims killed under torture which didn't stop to the date of this report.

The following link shows names and details for victims tortured to death by Syrian Government's Armed Troops   

 Torturing methods that have been documented by hundreds of tortured survivors' testimonies are 46 cases. 

United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

These principles are based, deprived by international humanitarian law and international law of human rights, on the basis of humane treatment and non-discrimination. Protection principle No. 7has particular importance especially important as calls to investigate all cases of ill-treatment of detainees and punish the perpetrators.

 SNHR emphasized that torturing committed by Syrian Government's Armed Forces is systematic widespread policy, the proof is killing at least 4 citizens under torture , this is constitute a flagrant violations of the state's obligations to International Human Rights Law and International Law of Human Rights.

The torture is systematically practiced  and in a large scale attacks carried out by Syrian Government's Armed Troops and Shabiha against civilians , and they are aware of those attacks , which is considered as crime against humanity

  There are large involvements of Shabiha militia affiliated to Syrian Government in torturing citizens in unofficial detention centers in various governorates where they raped and tortured abducted women

  Syrian Government's Armed Forces committed wide range acts of to torture under non-international armed conflicts which is considered as a war crime according to Article 8 of the Rome Statute  

Syrian Government didn't comply with customary IHL or any local or international law in torturing issues carless all international norms and laws

 Armed Oppositions

SNHR documented torturing cases in centers controlled by armed opposition , it led to death cases in particular in the cases of Shabiha committed rape against women when breaking in house, those the most documented torturing to death cases

Although armed opposition practice torturing against some civilians media activist cause their objections to some practices by some elements of the armed factions but did not live up to degree murder under torture.

Armed opposition also practiced methods of torture with some officers and soldiers whose arrested from government forces in order to obtain information.

There are also some of torture practices on a sectarian basis and considering that approximately 98% of the security chiefs are from the Alawite sect, a number of practices came as a reaction to those who torturing detainees and people in the security branches.

Legal conclusions against Armed Oppositions

The applicable law in Syrian armed conflict is Customary IHL , where armed opposition violated the rules of customary IHL , although the other cases are individual , but we are in SNHR expressing our concern that this acts will spread in other areas

Accordingly, the armed opposition and other factions fighting have been committed in torturing acts war crime of torture and violation of their obligations under Article 3 common as the parties to the conflict in Syria

SNHR didn't document any case of torturing women and children  

Condemnation and responsibilities

 The Syrian network for human rights and as an organization concerned with the defense of human rights condemns in the strongest terms and the greatest phrases all methods of torture with all forms, which date back to many of them to primitive times the first and eras of the Middle Ages, and stresses that these acts of violent cannot be issued by the person with a humanitarian values, and hold the Syrian Government Troops  with all its symbols and forms and all of those who alliance and cooperate with  and supported financially or morally the Syrian Government Troops  full responsibility for what happened and is happening from physical and material or moral damage  , as well as all of the reactions and consequences of arrest and torture.

Not to mention that International community and UN attitude of standing and watching idly violations of international law in Syria is a stain against who legislates this rules cause the lack of implementation to put an end to dictatorships that violate and offend human dignity and encourages dictatorships to move forward in their policies criminal lack of undeterred.

Syrian Network for Human Rights is one of the key sources to the United Nations in documenting the victims of Syrian Armed Conflicts, as pointed out by the united nation's reports issued in its statistics of conflict victims and pointed out in the analysis provided by HRDA; appointed by UN to oversee the issuance of Statistics of conflicts victims around the world.