Syria: 200 dead under torture in two in the prisons of the regime, according to the OSDH

Outside a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on March 9, 2014 (illustrative image).

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The British-based NGO has compiled a list of more than 47,000 prisoners who have died in detention since the start of the war in Syria in 2011. But it assures that the exact number would be 105,000 victims, including at least 200 under torture for the past two years.

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With our correspondent in Beirut, 

The 200 people who died under torture, including women, listed in two years by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, show that the 

passed by the American Congress in December 2019 did not have the desired deterrent effect on the Syrian authorities.

This text was adopted to force the Syrian government to put an end to systematic torture and to release prisoners who are often detained without trial.

The law was inspired by the revelations of a dissident Syrian military police officer, who fled the country with

of tortured bodies.

Nicknamed Caesar, this defector would have provided evidence that 11,000 detainees, men and women, succumbed to torture in prisons run by the Syrian authorities between 2011 and 2013.

Two years after the law, the methods have not changed.

The Syrian Observatory claims that the number of victims in two years is more than 200, because the names of 43 other victims have not been made public at the request of their families.

The NGO claims that 152,000 people, including more than 40,000 women, are still being held in Syrian government prisons.

Many have never been brought to justice.

► To read also: Syria: gathering of families of the disappeared and prisoners of the regime

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