The Syrian Network for Human Rights said - in a report issued today, Tuesday - that 161 civilians were killed in Syria last February, including 28 children and 6 women, adding that 66 of them were victims of torture.
The network indicated that the Syrian regime began to inform dozens of families of its forcibly disappeared that their sons had died.
According to the report - which came on 29 pages - last February witnessed a significant increase in the death toll, which reached 161 civilians, 77 of whom were killed by the Syrian regime forces, or approximately 48%.
The report attributed this rise to the fact that the Syrian regime informed - during the same month - 56 families from the town of Deir al-Asafir that their relatives had been arrested, and that the families had been informed through the Civil Registry Department.
The report pointed out that this report constitutes a condemnation of the Syrian regime, which arrested these people, then they became among the forcibly disappeared;
Because he denied their presence with him, and now he tells the families of their deaths, and the report believes that the cause of their death is poor care and torture.
He said that the records of the forcibly disappeared in the Syrian Network for Human Rights show that the deceased had been arrested in 2018, and had died under torture in Sednaya Military Prison.
According to the report, the Syrian regime forces continued to bombard civilian-populated areas, and in this regard, Idlib governorate witnessed the largest number of casualties, 14 civilians.
The report added that the killing of 67 civilians (42% of the death toll recorded last February) was documented by other parties, noting that the past month witnessed a continuation of civilian casualties due to mines in different governorates and regions in Syria, where the killing of 16 civilians was documented. Including 5 children due to mines, bringing the death toll due to mines - since the beginning of 2022 - to 20 civilians, including 8 children.