BEEWhite Helmets rescuers say they’ve completed their search operations for attainable detainees within the secret cells or basements of Syria’s infamous Saydnaya navy jail with out discovering anybody.
Specialized groups assisted by K9 canine items and people accustomed to the ability combed the jail and its grounds on Monday, as crowds gathered within the hope of discovering their lacking kin.
“The search didn’t uncover any unopened or hidden areas inside the facility,” a White Helmets assertion learn.
The information got here as insurgent fighters stated that they had discovered practically 40 our bodies exhibiting indicators of torture within the morgue of a hospital within the capital, Damascus.
Meanwhile, the chief of the Islamic militant group whose offensive led to the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday stated former senior officers who oversaw the torture of political prisoners throughout the nation’s 13-year civil struggle will likely be held accountable .
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani stated the names of the officers can be printed and that repatriation can be sought for many who fled to different nations. Rewards can even be provided to anybody who offers data on his whereabouts, he added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, says practically 60,000 folks have been tortured and killed in Assad’s authorities prisons.
Human rights teams say greater than 100,000 folks have disappeared since Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 that sparked the civil struggle.
BEEThe Turkey-based Association of Detainees and Missing in Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) stated in a 2022 report that the jail “successfully grew to become a demise camp” after the battle started.
It is estimated that greater than 30,000 inmates had been executed or died as a consequence of torture, lack of medical care or hunger on the facility between 2011 and 2018.
It additionally cited some launched inmates as saying that no less than 500 extra inmates had been executed between 2018 and 2021.
The ADMSP additionally described how “salt chambers” had been constructed to function primitive morgues to retailer our bodies earlier than they had been transferred to the Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus for registration and burial in graves on navy land. The our bodies of the prisoners had been by no means handed over to the households of the prisoners.
Amnesty International used the time period “human slaughterhouse” to explain Saydnaya and stated the executions had been licensed on the highest ranges of Assad’s authorities and that such practices amounted to struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity.
Assad’s authorities has rejected Amnesty’s claims as “unsubstantiated” and “devoid of reality”, insisting that each one executions in Syria have adopted due course of.
