Hundreds of families of detainees gathered in Umayyad Square in Damascus on Friday to demand to know the fate of their sons and denounce what they called the "marginalization" of the detainees' file.
The families demanded that the new Syrian authorities give the file of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons in the prisons of the ousted Assad regime the utmost importance and to constantly inform them through statements or information about the status of the investigations, noting that since the eighth of last December, they have been moving from one prison to another without seeing much interest in the biggest issue in the Syrian revolution.
The families wondered about the reasons for the authorities not declaring the course of the investigations, especially after the arrest of senior officers in the ousted regime who were working in the "Sednaya Military Prison", including the prison butcher "Mohammed Kanjo".
Statistics from the Syrian Network for Human Rights confirmed that the number of people forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime is no less than 96,103 people, including 2,327 children and 5,739 women, since March 2011.
The human rights monitoring group indicated that among these are approximately 24,047 forcibly disappeared people, including 98 children and 39 women, whose families obtained information about their referral to the military field court through survivors from detention centers or through intermediaries, and they were unable to determine their fate or obtain the slightest information about them since their disappearance.
SNHR said that no less than 14,843 death sentences were issued by military field courts in Syria from March 2011 to August 2023, of which no less than 6,971 sentences were reduced to prison/temporary detention or life imprisonment with hard labor.
The monitoring group confirmed that the death penalty was carried out against 7,872 other people, including 114 children, 26 women, and 2,021 military personnel, none of whom had their bodies handed over to their families, and their families were not officially notified of their execution.
Zaman Al Wasl
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