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UN official says 100k detained, missing in Syria

The U.N. political chief said reports suggest that more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict, with the government mainly responsible. Rosemary DiCarlo urged the warring parties Wednesday to heed the Security Council's call...

Syria: 600 people subject to arbitrary detention in July

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced yesterday that 598 people were subject to arbitrary detention, mostly by the Syrian regime, in July, Turkish news website Yeni Şafak reported. The report stated that the number included 38 children and 24 women, adding that the...

Testimony of three detainees in Assad prisons

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammed Eyad, former Syrian detainee, has unveiled with a heavy heart the details of his suffering in the Air Force Intelligence prison in the capital, where he had been held for four years between 2012-2016. “They were very painful years,” says Mohammed, who...