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Syrian regime frees 40 detainees, including army defectors

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has freed 40 detainees, including army defectors, after at least three years in military and civil prisons, the Coordinator of the Detainees association said. Most of the prisoners were freed from Sednaya military prison on Tuesday, according to Diab...

Military Intelligence tortured Amer Abazid to death: leaked data

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The leaked data of 1.5 mn Syrians wanted for the Assad regime have been revealing more about the fate of activists and heroes who scarified their lives to make the revolution dream come true even if the peaceful demonstrations turned into brutal war claimed lives of half...

Wanted List: Abdullah Hariri tortured to death by Military Intelligence

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activist Abdullah Hariri, another victim of the regime's Military Intelligence Division as the leaked wanted list shows. The world may remember the photo of Hariri, which was among 55,000 mass torture photos for 11,000 victims who were tortured to death in the Assad...

Al-Shanwan was victim of Military Intelligence Division: leaked wanted list

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Name of Ahmed Shehadeh al-Shanwan, one of Assad's mass torture victims, was appeared in the leaked wanted list, assuring that the Military Intelligence Division is security branch that tortured him to death. Al-Shanwan's photos was among 55,000 mass torture...

Syrian women recount regime prison ordeal

By Burak Karacaoglu and Mohamad Misto - (IDLIB, Syria/ ISTANBUL)- Women who escaped from prisons run by the Bashar al-Assad regime say they suffered all forms of torture, including rape. The regime forces are responsible for 7,699 rape cases involving at least 864 women and...

Female survivors of Assad's prisons speak out

Women who were illegally held in the Assad regime’s prisons in Syria, where they were subjected to torture and rape, told Anadolu Agency about their sufferings and the horrors they witnessed. Women are among the biggest victims of the civil war in Syria, which is still raging on in...

Save The Woman: solidarity campaign with Syrian female detainees

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Save the Woman, Save the Human”, a solidarity campaign will be launched in the coming days to raise the voice of Syrian women detainees held in regime prisons. The campaign, organized by several people interested in the issue of detained Syrian women, is scheduled to...

Check Syrian Regime's Wanted Lists

Zaman Al Wasl will launch a huge search engine including data and names of 1,500,000 people wanted for the Syrian regime, including warrants of arrest, interrogation and travel ban. Syria’s first enormous search engine is also including names of 250,000 women....

Bashar al-Assad to grant general amnesty due to Russian demand

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that regime president Bashar al-Assad will issue a decree granting a general amnesty to opposotion detainees over a Russian demand. Russia is pressing on the Assad regime to show a good-will sign ahead of the planned peace talks...

Former Detainee in Tadmur Prison tells his memos

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee at Tadmur (Palmyra) Military Prison recounts the stories of several detainees who were held in the famous prison known as the Syrian Bastille. He tells of their tragedies and pains which remained unheard throughout the 1980s. Some of the people whose...

Abused, tortured Syrian woman recalls horrors

Despite the passage of years, a Syrian refugee in Turkey is still haunted by the horrors of her past under the Assad regime. Muna B., 33, has been living in the Reyhanli district of Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province for two years. Before fleeing to Turkey, she was arrested...

Over 100,000 people detained in Syria since 2011: NGO

More than 100,000 people have been detained inside war-torn Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, according to a London-based NGO. In a statement on Monday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said some 106,727 people have been held since March...

6 FSA fighters with 2-month-old hunger strike demand release from SDF prison

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the two-month-old hunger strike, the release date of 6 Free Syrian Army prisoners held by the US-backed militias in Raqqa since a year still unknown. Activist Abdulaziz al-Mutlaq told Zaman al-Wasl the detained fighters, five of them are family members, were...

After Raqqa fall, activists seek fate of civilians detained by ISIS

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The fate of dozens of Syrian activists who arbitrarily arrested by the Islamic State in Raqqa remains unknown even after the city liberation on Friday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, prominent local monitoring tracks Syrian war, has launched a campaign...

German justice handed images of 'torture by Assad regime'

More than 27,000 images of torture and killings allegedly perpetrated by the Assad regime in Syria have been handed to German prosecutors who are investigating possible abuses, a rights group said Friday. "The photos show the extent and the systematic nature of torture" under Syrian...

Syria’s ‘disappeared’ are murdered on an industrial scale. The UN must step in

(The Guardian)- In Syria, people disappear. Tens of thousands of Syrians are missing. We don’t know where they are being held or whether they are dead or alive. For the disappeared, the situation is life-threatening. For their families and friends, the uncertainty is agonising. President...

Despite Walid Halaq execution, his family suffers blackmail

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The name of the teacher Walid Halaq appeared Zaman al-Wasl leaks as he was executed by a decision of the field court in Palmyra in 1982 on charges of belonging to the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Halaq, born in 1954 in Aleppo, was arrested in February 1981...

Holocaust Museum sheds light on Syrian detainees suffering

By Fris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- With chicken bones soaked with blood and rust c, a number of regime detainees in the Fourth Brigade prison have written the names of their comrades on a piece of old t-shirt cloth. The human rights activist and former detainee, Mansur al-Omari...