1000 detainees from Darayya have been killed under torture

1000 detainees from Darayya have been killed under torture
The Assad regime has begun issuing death notices for political detainees at an unprecedented rate, according to groups that monitor the prisons, in an effort to resolve the fate of thousands of missing Syrians.

Since the spring, Assad registry offices have released hundreds of these notifications. Many of the notices report that prisoners have been dead since the early years of the conflict.

The civil registry in Daryya in Damascus countryside has received a list which includes the names of 1,000 of the city’s residents who died under torture in Assad’s prisons.

In the past few weeks, scores of activists from Daraya specifically have been declared dead. At least 4 of them - Islam Dabbas, Yehya Sharbaji, Majd & Abdulsattar Kholani - have same date and place of death: January 15, 2013 in Saydnaya, that indicates potential group execution, activists said.

Earlier, 30 names of detainees in Assad regime’s prisons arrived Yabrud city, and about 800 in Homs, Hama and Hasaka.

Lawyers familiar with the process said the Defense Ministry of Assad regime has sent the names of hundreds of detainees to civil registry offices across the country in recent months and instructed that these prisoners be registered as dead. The deaths have been registered across the provinces of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Latakia in recent weeks.

The civil registry offices issue notices that are essentially executive summaries listing few details about the deceased. Other death notices are issued by military hospitals, which release formal certificates and medical reports. These routinely list the cause of death as heart attack or stroke.

Most documents reviewed by The Washington Post said the detainees had died between 2013 and 2015, with a lag of up to two years before military doctors signed and stamped an official certificate and medical report. Bodies have not been returned to family members, and burial locations are not shared. 

Death notices issued in the central city of Hama state they were written in a Damascus military court at night. That timing suggests the prisoners were executed, according to groups monitoring Syria’s detention network.

Former prisoners, some released from Sednaya military prison near Damascus as recently as May, described regular executions, physical abuse, the withholding of urgent medical care and rations so paltry that cellmates died of starvation or malnutrition.

Accurate figures for the total number who have died in regime custody are hard to come by because of regime secrecy and the reticence of many Syrians to publicize their family members’ cases.

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