BALADI NEWS
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Saturday that at least 183 cases of arbitrary arrests were documented in October, including 109 cases of enforced disappearance.
The arrests as following: 98 people, including 4 children and 2 women, by the Syrian regime. 29 people, including 3 children, by the former al-Qaeda branch Hay’at Tahrir al Sham. 46 people by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. 22 people, including 2 children and 3 women by the armed opposition.
SNHR's legal report shows that most of the documented arrests cases documented in Damascus Suburbs.
Syrian opposition sources said that more than 500,000 prisoners remain inside the prisons of the Syrian regime.
According to the International Conscience Movement, an NGO, more than 13,500 women have been jailed since the Syrian conflict began, while more than 7,000 women remain in detention, where they are subjected to torture, rape and sexual violence.
The Syrian regime has been practicing 72 torture methods gainast detainees in security chambers and military hospitals, SNHR said October.
The 65-page report states that torture in the regime’s detention centers still continues to date, with the report documenting the deaths of at least 14,000 individuals due to torture in the Syrian regime’s detention centers between March 2011 and September 2019, including185 individuals who were killed since the beginning of 2019.
About 1.2 million Syrian citizens have been arrested and detained at some point in the regime’s detention centers, including 130,000 individuals who are still detained or forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime, since the revolution erupted in March 2011, SNHR said.
Source: Zaman Al-Wasl.