A human rights group has documented the death of 636 Palestinian refugees, 34 women and two children, under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime since 2011.
On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said that the families of the victims are demanding the handing over of the bodies of their children.
Many of them told the AGPS that "work must be done to bury their victims in a manner that respects the dead, and to ascertain the fate of their sons, whether they are among the victims or alive in the prisons of the branches and the Syrian security services.
The London-based group confirmed that the Syrian regime continues to detain more than two thousand Palestinian refugees, including 110 women refugees, and 49 Palestinian children, and they have been in a state of enforced disappearance since their arrest and there is no information about their fate or places of detention.
The families of missing people held the PLO, the Palestinian factions, and international organizations responsible for their living and forcibly disappeared children, and also called for revealing the fate of more than 1,800 Palestinian refugees and subjecting them to fair trials in partnership with international committees, according to the group.
The AGPS pointed out that the real number of detainees and victims of torture is greater than what has been documented, due to the Syrian regime's concealment of the names and information of the detainees it has, in addition to the victims' families' fear of announcing the death of their children under torture for fear of security prosecution by the Syrian regime.
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