Pinnacle of Assad’s human rights abuses: The 2-year-old political prisoner

Assad regime released on Monday the youngest detainee in its prisons and in the world, the two year-old child Muhammad Omar Salameh, after spending 28 months inside the prison with his mother.

The child Omar is from Deir ez-Zor and was only 3 months old when he was detained with his mother by Assad terrorists.

Many have described Omar as being the youngest political detainee in Syria and the whole world, describing the regime sarcastically as “the protector of the minorities and patron of childhood.”

The release of Omar and his mother flamed a social media campaign for the release of the hundreds of thousands of other detainees – men, women, children and elderly.

Amnesty International issued a report entitled: “Regime is destroying humans…torture, disease and death in Syrian prisons,” in which it revealed that more than 17,773 people died in custody between March 2011 and December 2015, meaning that 300 civilians were detained every month.

Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that at least 447 people died due to torture at the hands of Assad terrorists in 2016, including two children and seven women.

It is noteworthy to mention that more than 300 thousand Syrian detainees remain locked up in Assad regime prisons, suffering all kinds of torture and despicable human treatment, starvation, humiliation, deprivation, etc.

Hundreds of activists and jurists have been organizing campaigns inside and outside Syria reminding the world of those who are rotting in Assad prisons. “No negotiations before the release of the prisoners,” they reiterate.