(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has released 24 prisoners from eastern Deir Ezzor province after being held for years in the notorious Sednaya prison, activists said Saturday.
Pro-regime media accounts said the release of opposition prisoners was a goodwill gesture on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
So far, about 100 detainees from Deir Ezzor have been released in the past few weeks.
The Detainees Association of Sednaya Prison released last November testimonies of torture survivors of the notorious detention facility.
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.
Zaman Al Wasl
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