The family of Rami Mustafa al-Turk learned the fate of their detained son after Zaman al-Wasl published a document from the National Defense Forces in Damascus addressed to the Military Field Court, confirming his death under torture in a National Defense Forces detention facility.
The document, dated December 2, 2015, is one of thousands the newspaper obtained as part of its initiative to uncover the fate of disappeared detainees, under the hashtags #Detainee_Fate and #Death_Cabinets. It includes lists of the names of victims who were liquidated inside National Defense Forces detention facilities.
A family member told the newspaper that Rami returned to Syria in 2012 to visit his family and went out with his mother to the Bab Sreija market in central Damascus. He was then arrested by security forces, and no news of him was heard from that day until his name appeared in the leaked documents.
When the family asked about his body, one of our sources reported that he was buried in a mass grave in the Najha area, south of the capital.
Rami was 25 years old when he was arrested. He died under torture, along with thousands of other detainees who were executed inside the National Defense headquarters in Damascus, in one of the most heinous crimes documented today in official documents.
Fadi Saqr, the commander of the National Defense militia, is considered primarily responsible for these crimes. He continues to roam Damascus freely, protected and immune from any accountability.
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