Calls to reveal fate of Palestinian victims of torture in Syria

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has called for revealing the whereabouts of all Palestinian refugees detained in Syria and to facilitate contact with them, Al-Resalah newspaper reported yesterday.

According to the paper, the organisation placed responsibility for the suffering of the Palestinians in Syria on all parties to the conflict.

The group’s coordinator Ahmed Hussein told Al-Resalah that the organisation, along with 54 Syrian rights groups, had addressed the UN regarding the victims of torture in Syria.

“We sent the letter to many rights groups and international bodies, including the UN and the UN Council for Human Rights,” Hussein said.

READ: 460 Palestinians died of torture in Syria

He also said that the letter, which marked the International Day in Support of victims of Torture which was marked yesterday, noted that the fate of thousands of Syrians inside prisons or official and non-official secret detention centres in Syria remains unknown.

They went on to call for the international community to bear its responsibility towards the victims of torture and their families and to defend them and take care with them.

It called for protecting their legal rights, compensating them and holding the abusers to account, as well as working to end all forms of torture in Syria.

READ: Syrian regime forces families of Palestinian detainees to sign false death certificates

Meanwhile, the Task Group reiterated that it is necessary to reveal the fate of thousands of detainees and lost Palestinians who are believed to have been tortured to death, and to hand over their bodies to their families for burial.

Some 1,680 Palestinian refugees in Syria have been detained, the group said, including 107 women. While 483 were tortured to death in Syrian prisoners or detention centres.