Families flock to Syria’s prisons looking for released inmates

Chloe Hadjimatheou - Tortoise - 10 December, 2024

According to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, at least 17,723 people were killed in government custody from the start of the uprising in March 2011 to December 2015 – an average of 300 deaths each month. There are no figures for subsequent years but there is no reason to believe the killings stopped.

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