Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria (AGPS) called on the Syrian regime to disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinians forcibly disappeared in state-run dungeons.
AGPS believes that the arbitrary internment of Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria amounts to a war crime.
Many reports issued by AGPS, such as “Enforced Disappearance 1,” “Enforced Disappearance 2,” and the “Pictures Massacre,” provide details about the Palestinian victims of torture and enforced disappearance during the bloody conflict.
548 Palestinian refugees, including 34 women and dozens of minors, died under torture in Syrian government lock-ups. 77 causalities were identified through live snapshots leaked from Syrian penal complexes. Dozens of Syrian nationals have endured a similar fate.
AGPS kept record of several cases where Palestinians have been kidnapped at government checkpoints or during assaults carried out by government troops on Palestinian refugee camps and shelters. In most such cases, the detainees’ families receive their relatives’ bodies from a military or government hospital while wrapped up in a plastic bag or in a blood-tainted piece of cloth.
Syrian opposition says more than 500,000 prisoners are still 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, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
The Detainees Association of Sednaya Prison released last 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 nine-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.
Zaman Al Wasl
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