The Association of Detainees and The Missing in Sednaya Prison held the Assad regime responsible for the death of political prisoner Issam Shraihi in Adra Prison who died after his health has deteriorated in recent weeks.
The Association said that Shraihi hails from the village of Jabbata al-Khashab in Quneitra province and was born in the city of Homs in 1964. He died on Sunday after spending 24 years behind bars.
The Association stressed that the Assad regime bears full responsibility for Shraihi’s death as it rejected all the appeals the Association submitted for a retrial or reducing the sentence by 25 percent. The regime also rejected an appeal to include Shraihi by one of the amnesty decrees that the regime issued over the past years.
The Association indicated that the Assad regime’s intelligence agencies had arrested Shraihi in 1998 from his workplace in the telephone exchange in the Rukn al-Din neighborhood in Damascus, adding that he was subjected to severe torture that caused him various injuries to the back and feet.
The Association pointed out that Shraihi’s case is one of the many documented cases it has of political detainees who have been detained since the last century without clear charges.
(Source: SOC’s media department)
