Syria
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Syria : Families wait desperately for loved ones' release after prison amnesty
Dozens of Syrians gathered on the streets of Damascus last night, hoping that their relatives would be among a batch of detainees released under a new amnesty. Families assembled in the “President’s Bridge” area, awaiting the arrival of buses carrying people who have been held for years in Syria’s…Source — Middle East Eye
Syrie : une dizaine de mineurs français dans la prison attaquée par l’EI
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Syrie : Des djihadistes s’évadent après l’attaque d’une prison par l’organisation Etat islamique
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Syrie : le “piano” de la mort de la prison de Palmyre
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Syria: young man from eastern Ghouta dies in regime prison, after three years of detention
SOHR has documented the death of 47,496 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,094 men and young men, 339 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen. Reliable sources have informed the Syr…Source — Syriahr
Syria: US imposes sanctions on Syrian prisons
The Treasury Department also put sanctions on Syrian armed group Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which operates in northern Syria, for abuses against civilians, as well as on two of the group’s leaders, it said in a statement. “Today’s designations promote accountability for abuses commiitted against the Syrian…Source — Times of India
Syrie : les prisonniers du régime, un business juteux pour les escrocs, face à des familles désespérées
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Syria: the greater jail, the politics of prison
The prison is a fundamental political institution, the function of which is to de-politicize the population; indeed to politicide them. The concept of politicide was introduced in political science in the 1980s to conceptualize murdering people en masse for their political affiliations, rather than…Source — AlJumhuriya
Syria: prisoner from eastern Ghouta dies under torture in Sednaya prison
Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a civilian from Saqba city in eastern Ghouta, seven years after being arrested at a security checkpoint in Damascus. The victim died under torture in Sednaya prison (known as the Slaughterhouse). With the death of more civilians, the number…Source — Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Syria: "On dort l'un sur l'autre" : plongée au cœur d'une prison de jihadistes au Kurdistan syrien (vidéo)
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Jihadistes détenus en Syrie : "Au lieu d'organiser une justice, on met ce problème dans un étouffoir"
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Syria: bursting at the seams: inside an IS prison
Hasakeh province (Syria) (AFP) - Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty – haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space.Source — Le Monde
Syria: cómo es la prisión kurda donde están encerrados miles de terroristas del Estado Islámico
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Syria: boys, men held in inhumane conditions
A Kurdish-led armed group backed by the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is detaining thousands of Syrian and foreign men and boys in severely overcrowded informal detention centers in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today.Source — Human Rights Watch
Syria: woman recalls regime torture, condition of women in prisons
Thousands of women across Syria have been subjected to torture under the custody of the Syrian regime, while about 128,000 civilians remain in detention.Source — Daily Sabah
Syria: "Palmyre", chasser les fantômes
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Syria: sortie de l'enfer des prisons syriennes, une mère aspire à une "nouvelle vie"
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Syria: les rescapés de l'enfer [audio & video]
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the french version. But you may watch a video about the same subject with english subtitlesSource — France Inter
En Syrie, dans les geôles de Daech
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — La Croix
Syria : prison de Hama, les détenus prennent le contrôle
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Lundimatin
Syrian crematory is hiding mass killings of prisoners, U.S. says
The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war.Source — The New York Times
Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty
Thousands of other opponents of Assad died from torture and starvation at Saydnaya prison, witness reports suggest. As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria’s most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country’s civil war as part of an exterminat…Source — The Guardian
Syrie : l'horrible prison de Saidnaya
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — Amnesty International
Syrie : une Syrienne raconte sa détention dans une prison du régime.
Sorry, this article is not available in English. You can consult the French version.Source — Slate
