The deposed Assad regime used Article 34 of the Civil Status Law issued in 1957 to change the names of detainees' children, using the law in a way that contradicts the original text.
The law states briefly: "Anyone who finds a newborn child must hand him over to the security services, and the security personnel and the mayor of the neighborhood must then organize a report on the incident stating the age that appears on the child and the distinguishing marks, and the child must be handed over with the report to one of the institutions or persons approved by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.
These institutions or persons must organize a birth certificate and send it to the Civil Registry Secretary to record it in accordance with the previous provisions after naming the newborn and his parents with assumed names chosen by the Civil Registry Secretary."
However, this legal article is intended for children of unknown lineage and identity, and the regime used it to change the names of detainees' children in clear violation of the text of the law and human values.
The number of cases is still unknown, but compared to the number of detainees in Assad's prisons, the number is very large. Therefore, an investigation must be opened into orphanages in Syria to put a legal end to the matter.
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