The media office the Al-Qaboun district said that elements of the Assad regime’s Political Security branch and stormed the “Muslim Abdeen” prep school in Barzeh district in Damascus on February 22nd and took a number of students to an unknown destination after beating them savagely.”
Spokesman of the Syrian Coalition Salem al-Meslet said “this barbaric act represents a crime against humanity and a violation of human rights.”
The Al-Qaboun media office said that the abductees, mostly 14 years old, are displaced residents from the Al-Qaboun district, adding that they were detained on charges of being “terrorists and takfiris.”
Meslet stresses that the file of detainees in Assad’s secret jails is a top priority for the Syrian Coalition, adding that “we constantly raise the issue of the detainees in all our meetings with Arab, international and UN officials and call upon them to exercise pressure on the Assad regime to release the detainees and alleviate their suffering. “No-one must forget the role of activists who have been detained by Assad’s security forces, and that almost every Syrian has a brother, a friend or relative who is waiting a bleak fate in Assad’s secret jails.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)
