Syrian regim security services have tortured to death at least 13,000 people, including children and women, since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 and until the end of June 2017, The Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
In its annual report, entitled ‘Stopping the Torture Machines’, released on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the network presented the regime’s torture practices in detention centers and the death toll.
According to the network, 12,920 people were killed under torture in regime prisons, including 161 children and 41 women.
“Syria is the highest country in the world in modern times where such a large number of people are killed under torture,” the network said in its report.
“Although the focus is often on those killed under torture, there are terrifying numbers of people who have been maimed and suffered disfiguration because of torture as well,” added the network.
Although the regime has killed the largest number of Syrians under torture, the network referred in the report to the Islamic State forces killing 30 people in its prisons. The network also pointed out that the Democratic Union Party militants killed 26 people under torture including a child and two women. The report mentioned that 53 people were killed in the same way by other factions in the past six years.
The network called on the al-Assad regime to take immediate action to stop all forms of torture, suspend death sentences, open an immediate investigation into all deaths in detention centers, release all arbitrarily detained persons, and allow an international independent Investigation Commission to enter detention centers immediately.
Several international and national human rights organizations have addressed the al-Assad regime violations against detainees including Amnesty International which published a report confirming that some 13,000 people were executed by the al-Assad regime in Sednaya prison, which it described as the “human slaughterhouse
