In “Barbaric” Fashion, Syrian Regime Informs Prisoners’ Relatives They Died in Jail

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In “Barbaric” Fashion, Syrian Regime Informs Prisoners’ Relatives They Died in Jail

by TheTower.org Staff | 07.25.18 1:59 pm

In what one Syrian described as a “barbaric way,” the Assad regime is updating its records of prisoners it is holding and informing families that their loved ones have died, sometimes years after the fact, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday.

As the Syrian regime is updating it records, families of the estimated 80,000 Syrians held in regime prisons say that the authorities are notifying them of their relatives’ deaths, often years after the fact. The report of a relative’s death, for many families, comes after years of silence from the regime about the prisoner’s status.

“Before, the regime was giving no details on the detained. It wouldn’t declare them dead,” Fadel Abdul Ghany, head of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, told AFP. “Now it is, but in a barbaric way.”

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