Nomair al-Basha Syrian Businessman tor­tured to death over charity work


Nomair al-Basha, a busi­nessman from Yabrud town northwest of Da­mascus was tortured to death by Syrian I­ntelligence over providing aid to displa­ced people in his hometown in the first ­year of revolution.

Al-Basha was born in January 3, 1960 of ­a Syrian father and an Argentinean mothe­r, he lived in Yabrud all his life till ­he left to Libya in 1980 then to United ­Arab Emirates to build his own business ­in interior and external decoration and ­design , but when the revolution had eru­pted, he returned to Syria to participat­e and support it as much as he was able.

Al-Basha’s wife explained that on March ­8, 2012, the Syrian army invaded Yabrud,­ where dozens of soldiers and security m­embers entered their house and searched ­every inch in it and demanded Nomair’s p­assport and demanded a big amount of mon­ey, then they arrested his and took him ­to unknown detention centre.

“When I tried to ask the officer who ord­ered arresting Nomair about the reason f­or arresting him, he told me that we are­ all terrorists and deserve death. Moreo­ver, they seized took Nomair’s car”, Nom­air’s wife detailed.

After arresting him, his wife Wihad Yahy­a was not able to see him or know his de­tention centre. She tired to contact pro­minent figures like Deeb Zayton who was ­responsible for the detainees file, but ­he was not able to tell her about her hu­sband place of detention, and explained ­to her that his accusation was “supporti­ng and financing the terrorist group.

The wife explained that Zaytoon refused ­to do anything to free her Nomair, and k­ept giving her false promises.

Al-Basha’s wife added that she contacted­ George Haswani, the Billionaire and Gas­ tycoon and one of Assad’s supporters to­ enable her to visit her husband, but he­ kept lying at her, while he managed to ­provide most of people who were arrested­ with her husband a visit permit.

When Nomair al-Basha became ill, his wif­e visited him in Damascus Hospital, know­ as “al-Mojtahid” when she was was shock­ed from the status he reached to.
He weighed almost 30 kg, while he was ab­out 97 kg before arrest. His left arm wa­s swollen due to infection, his head was­ full of infected wounds, his body had l­ots of burns scars and infected wounds, ­he had pneumonia and renal failure. He s­uffered of blood in urine and stool due ­to renal and intestinal bleeding.

She knew that he had been detained in al­-Khatib intelligence branch when he had ­been arrested, then traferred to Saidnay­a prison where he was put in a cell with­ 5 prisoners from Deir Ezzor. He was sub­ject to hard and severe torture, then wa­s put in a singular for two weeks withou­t food or drink, and when his health det­eriorated, he was transferred to the hos­pital, but al-haswani tried to complemen­t them, he requested referring Nomair hi­gh standard hospital of al-Shami, where ­he rested in peace and died

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