The travails of three women, 38-year-old Refeyda Zeytun, her sister and mother began at a hospital in Haresta region in the Syrian capital of Damascus, after her mother was injured in an airstrike.  Instead of treating them, they were arrested by Syrian regime forces, on suspicion that...

A Syrian woman formerly jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime cannot forget the memories of the torture dungeons. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Um Muhammed, 55, who was paralyzed by a regime air raid, recalls the inhumane torture methods and cruelties she witnessed during her...

Prisoners are suffering different types of brutal torture that the human mind cannot imagine at the Syrian regime dungeons, according to former detainees.  In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Muhammed Abdullah said he was arrested for participating in pro-democracy protests...

Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of 606 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian regime prisons since the outburst of the bloody warfare. 80 Palestinian refugees from Syria were pronounced dead in 2018 alone, up from 13 refugees in 2017. 77...

"I thought I was dead when they pulled out my toe nails and put my feet in iced water," said a Syrian man, recounting the excruciating torture he endured imprisoned by the Syrian regime for over three years after completing his military service. Muhammad Ahmad Ammar, 29, surrendered to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Behind the bars of Roumieh, the notorious Lebanese prison, and inside a cell Bock B, dwells Abdul Razzaq al-Adam, a Syrian disabled detainee, for more than two years without trial and without an attorney. Despite his disability, the Lebanese authorities have detained him, a...

A recent New York Times article by Anne Barnard exposed Syria’s brutal system of torture prisons in horrific detail. While the exact number of Syrians who have passed through the system of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment is unknown, human rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands...

Action Group For Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of Palestinian refugee Wardan Yousef Matroud Hejazi, born in 1982, as a result of harsh torture in Syrian government jails. The Syrian security forces told his family that he died on April 25, 2019. Wardan,...

The Syrin Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday it had documented more than 459 cases of arbitrary arrests in April, including 272 cases of enforced disappearance. Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances have been amongst the most common and widespread violations since the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lutfiya, a woman from Al-Asali district, was arrested in Sahat Al Ashmar with one of her relatives, without committing any offence. There were no demonstrations; the square was empty except for barriers, soldiers and people who were forced to leave their homes. Like...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “The country that violates its girls’ honour is not a homeland." This was the last thing said in an interview with Amal, 22, a girl who lost her virginity in Assad's prisons. Amal, who is from the town of Rastan in central Homs province, was a student at the Faculty of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Syria's Women in Assad Prisons” is a series of testimonies of Syrian women who have been held in detention since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011.  Zaman al-Wasl decided to reveal this file of series to its readers and the world about the most...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The family of martyr Ali Othman has recently received a certificate from the civil registry in Homs stating that he died with his brother Ibrahim inside the prison after seven years of detention. Ali, nicknamed "Jeddo" (Grandfather), was one of the first protesters and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian designer Tamer Turkmani continues his 4-year-old project in documenting the victims of the Syrian revolution by their names and pictures. Turkmani has focused on the photos of the unidentified victims, because they are not mere figures and they did...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- A legal report issued this week has shed the light on the mounting abuses against the Syrian detainees inside the Lebanese prisons. The sentences issued by the Lebanese Military Court against Syrian detainees are clearly and unequivocally...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security forces have threntend to storm Hama Central Prison in two weeks if the detainees keep their rebellion over death sentences for fellow inmates, source told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday.   The Syrian police backed by the political Security Division seek...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo about women prisoners. After a 15-day shift in the hospital, Jihan, 28, was heading her flat in the Rukneddine district. But the exhausted woman was obliged to wait for long time at an...

In August 2014, Ma'ad  al-Najras  was on his way for his last exam in Law school in eastern Deir Ezzor city, but he arrested by the military intelligence.  Then, his name appeared on the list that was published by Zaman al-Wasl of 8,000 people died under torture in the...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)-  Near the Umayyad Square, few blocks from Bashar al-Assad's Palace  in Damascus , hundreds of Syrian were victims of the arbitrary arrest and forced disappearing.  Al-Tahouna prison, or Mill prison,  is affiliated to the elite Republican...

(Syrian Network for Human Rights)- Syrian women’s fundamental rights – whether social, security-related, economic, health or psychological – have deteriorated severely at every level following the Syrian regime’s brutal retaliation against Syrian society in response to the outbreak of the...