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Ongoing Violations by the Syrian Regime: Torture Crimes in Prisons
The regime continues to commit atrocities against prisoners and the forcibly disappeared in the dungeons of its security branches within its controlled areas, due to torture and medical and psychological neglect.
The regime's prisons remain overcrowded with both civilian and military detainees, who endure the harshest forms of torture and maltreatment in a crime against humanity that the regime continues to perpetrate.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights works to monitor and document these cases to present them to the international public, aiming to pressure both the Syrian regime and the international community to hold accountable those responsible for these crimes.
In this context, the Observatory has documented the deaths of 52 civilians who lost their lives under torture in the regime's detention facilities since the beginning of 2024. Among them were a political activist, a university student, a writer, an engineer, and a citizen holding American nationality.
The following outlines the monthly distribution as reported by the Syrian Observatory:
- **January:** 7 civilians, including a political activist, died under torture in regime prisons.
- **February:** 4 civilians, including a university student and a writer, died under torture in regime prisons.
- **March:** 4 civilians, including two siblings and an engineer, died under torture in regime prisons.
- **April:** 3 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **May:** 8 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **June:** 5 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **July:** 2 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **August:** 6 civilians died under torture, including 3 defectors from the regime, an Islamic thinker, and the founder of a charitable organization and an Islamic secondary school in Daraya.
- **September:** 6 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **October:** 4 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- **November:** 3 civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reiterates its call for the international community to hold the Syrian regime accountable for the crimes it has committed and demands the release and protection of detainees.
The Observatory emphasizes its ongoing efforts to prioritize this issue and to amplify the voices of the detainees, the captives, and their families to the world. It warns against the use of "anti-terrorism laws" to justify political and human rights detentions, and calls for visits to detention facilities across Syria, particularly those of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, to uncover the true conditions of detainees and ascertain the fate of those who have vanished or been killed in the depths of prisons and detention centers.
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