(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ibrahim Hussein al-Muheisen, who hails from the northern countryside of Daraa, was arrested in May 2011 in Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus by the Military Security Division on charges of assisting refugees without informing the authorities. The checkpoint arrested him,...

A 22-year-old from Minneapolis who is jailed in northern Syria says was recruited to join ISIS on Twitter when he was just 18 years old. Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, a naturalized US citizen, told CBS News his story from a prison run by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Al-Madioum...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rights advocates to launch on Friday a solidarity campaign on the International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearance in the opposition-held areas and refuge countries. Mohamed Ka’kah, president of the Association for the Defense of the Detainees in...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented at least 569 cases of arbitrary arrests in August, including 362 cases of enforced disappearance.    All warring parties have carried arbitrary arrests, according to London-based monitoring group.   269 people...

The families of tens of thousands of people who have been forcibly disappeared or abducted since the onset of the crisis in Syria in 2011 have suffered years of agony in the face of government denials and insufficient support from the international community, Amnesty International said...

Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of 311 Palestinian refugees after they were gunned down by snipers in the war-ravaged Syrian territories, mostly in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus. Up to 3,989 Palestinian refugees have been pronounced dead in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham executed a Syrian media activist last April by a gunshot in his detention centre, monitoring group and brother said Tuesday.    Samer al-Salloum, 34, was a victim of the arbitrary arrest by the former Syrian offshoot of al-Qaeda...

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...

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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Saudi Interior Ministry said the number of Syrians held over security charges by the kingdom’s General Investigation Directorate has reached a total of 259, according to statement issued Tuesday. The Syrian detainees occupy the second place in the list of foreigners...

Years have passed since Meysa al-Mihabi was released from the regime prison in Syria, however, the torture she experienced still haunts her every day. "The imprisoned women, including myself, were raped. They [prison guards] would turn a deaf ear although we begged them [not to]. They do...

(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 preferred...

Syrian women jailed by the Syrian regime are left with haunting memories of unbearable torture and abuse in interrogation centers. Abdulfatah, 46, was detained on Dec. 25, 2013 in Muaddamiye upon accusations of helping students who came to Damascus from Homs to receive education....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Sednaya prison “executioners” forced a 70-year-old old man from the city of Darya, to grab his teeth and throw them in the toilet, and then put them in his mouth again before they beat him. Detainee Imad Abu Ras could not forget this scene along with other methods of torture...

The story of Saihe Nedim Barudi, a Syrian woman who contracted cancer after spending three months in regime prisons, is still vivid in the memory of her friends. Barudi, 55, died in February, almost five years after she was arrested by regime forces in the west-central Hama province on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese lawyer has uncovered a judicial scandal that took place in the palace of justice in Zahle town. The disappearance of the judicial file of the case of his client, the Syrian army defector Mohamed Nassif, in order to conceal the case in which five members of Hezbollah...

Syrian man jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime has haunting memories of unbearable torture and abuse in the interrogation centers.   Jamal Abidin Najjar, a mechanical engineer, was detained while he was traveling from Syria to Lebanon as a warrant had been issued for his arrest...

Besides facing torture, many prisoners in Syrian jails are subjected to pay huge bribes in exchange of their freedom, say ex-prisoners. “My family paid a bribe of 500,000 Syrian liras (about $10,000) to one of the members of the Assad family for my release,” Um Hisam, 50, told Anadolu...

A Syrian man who was detained by regime forces for two-and-a-half months due to mistaken identity wants to tell his chilling story in a book.  Samer Barakat, 40, was arrested in Aleppo in 2012 and held in regime prisons, where he was subjected to torture for 76 days. Barakat told...

Hatice Ahmet, who was arrested by the regime forces in Syria along with her four friends, cannot forget the tortures she has been subjected to in the Bashar al-Assad regime’s underground prison.  The 38-year-old survivor was arrested four years ago in Damascus for allegedly providing...