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Amnesty International: Assad Regime Detains and Kidnaps 10,000s of Syrians

November 5, 2015
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Amnesty International: Assad Regime Detains and Kidnaps 10,000s of Syrians

The Assad regime and allied militia have detained and abducted tens of thousands of people since 2011 in a campaign that is a crime against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday.

The rights watchdog interviewed relatives of the disappeared who said they had been forced to pay bribes to middlemen with close ties to the regime to gain information on the fate of their family members.

Amnesty said it had attempted to discuss the issue with the Syrian authorities and was awaiting a response.

“The enforced disappearances carried out since 2011 by the Syrian government were perpetrated as part of an organized attack against the civilian population that has been widespread, as well as systematic,” Amnesty said.

It described such acts as crimes against humanity and called on Damascus to allow access to international monitors from the United Nations-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria to seek information on detainees.

More than 65,000 people, most of them civilians, were forcibly disappeared between March 2011 and August 2015 and remained missing, Amnesty said, citing figures from the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a Syria-based monitoring group.

Detainees were squeezed into overcrowded, dirty cells where disease was rampant and medical treatment unavailable, Amnesty said, while those imprisoned suffered torture through methods such as electric shocks, whipping, suspension, burning and rape.

“People would die and then be replaced,” Salam Othman, who was forcibly disappeared from 2011 to 2014, was quoted as saying in the report.

“I did not leave the cell for the whole three years, not once … Many people became hysterical and lost their minds.”

Fearing what could happen to them if they made an official enquiry to the regime, relatives were forced to go to middlemen to seek details on detainees, such as their location or whether they were alive, Amnesty said.

Such bribes ranged from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, with some families driven to sell their homes to come up with the sums demanded.

“State officials are profiting from enforced disappearances in Syria, and given how widespread and common these bribes are, the state must either be expressly or implicitly condoning this practice,” said Nicolette Boehland, the author of the report. (Source: Syrian Coalition + Reuters)

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