A Palestinian monitoring group confirmed death of three female detainees under torture in the Sednaya Military Prison northeast of Damascus after being arbitrary held for several years.
The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said Majdolin al-Nabulsi, a newly-released detainee from the notorious prison, has revealed that three Palestinian refugee women died of torture in Sednaya.
Alia al-Safadi, Nour Hassan Suwaid and Marah al-Jishi were three of 40 female detainees who died in the Syrian security chambers due to summary executions and brutal torture.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been tortured or killed in Syrian jails since the Arab spring began. Sednaya prison, a military facility on the outskirts of Damascus, has long been considered one of the most formidable institutions in Syria.
Female detainees in Sednaya are subjected to daily torture by electric shocks, rape, beatings, humiliation, all kinds of torture and solitary confinement.
Al-Nabulsi, who has been freed after 6 years, appealed to the international community, human rights organizations to intervene in order to release the detainees in Bashar al-Assad's prisons, calling for their fate to be revealed.
According to estimates by humanitarian watchdogs, between 130,000 and 250,000 people were arrested or forcibly disappeared, beginning before the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. That number had sharply escalated by the end of 2012.
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