Syrian Network for Human Rights: More than a million people have been arrested since the beginning of the Syrian revolution
The Syrian Network for Human Rights has revealed the death toll of people who have been arrested in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011.
The director of the research department at the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Baraa Al-Agha, said that the network has documented more than 149,000 detainees, including more than 4,900 children and more than 9,200 women.
Al-Agha emphasized that these numbers are only the outcome of those still in detention and do not include those who were released, noting that the toll of those who have been arrested during the past ten years exceeds one million two hundred thousand people.
According to Al-Agha, the network has documented that detainees in the prisons of the Assad regime have been subjected to 72 methods of physical and psychological torture, as well as deliberate medical neglect.
She emphasized that at least 14,000 people died in prisons under torture as a result of these practices.
Al-Agha attributed the failure of the international efforts to release the detainees to the intransigence of Russia and China and to “provocatively” standing them on the side of the Assad regime and using their veto to protect it from accountability.
She indicated that in light of the Russian and Chinese protection and the prevention of referring the Syrian file to the International Criminal Court, the option to file cases before European courts under the global jurisdiction system is the currently available option, but it remains below the level of justice that the Syrians aspire to.
A few days ago, the United States called on the Assad regime to release the detainees in its prisons, in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Syria.
