Detainees released, missing still unknown in Syria’s Daraa
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – Based on a special presidential pardon, the Syrian government released a number of detainees in Daraa governorate, south Syria, on Sunday, in order to complete the settlements accomplished at the end of October.
On October 26, North Press published a report in which it talked about the clause of the detainees’ release and the statement of the fate of the missing, which has not yet been implemented in the settlements carried out in Daraa.
The number of detainees released based of the pardon has reached 15.
It is noteworthy that this presidential pardon is the 11th one, where it was preceded by a series of amnesty decrees specific to the governorate, during which many detainees were released due to events in Syria in general.
The release processes was done in the governorate’s building, today, and it was attended by the head of the security and the military committee in the southern region, Major General Mufid Hassan, the head of the Daraa branch of the Baath Party Hussein al-Rifa’i, the governor of Daraa, Marwan Sharbak and other officials of the Syrian government.
In October, the security services completed settling the status of hundreds of wanted people in Daraa and its countryside. They then established a permanent settlement center in the city of Daraa for those who were unable to settle their status in their villages and towns.
“There is nothing new in the detainees’ case. Although the Syrian government is demanded to clarify the fate of the detainees and release them, it is still procrastinating in this issue,” a source in the central committee in Daraa al-Balad said earlier.
The Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa has recorded more than 6,800 people from Daraa between detainees, missing and forcibly disappeared. The office also documented the killing of 25 people under torture in the government forces prisons during 2021.
The number of detainees, who previously belonged to the opposition, has reached 1,059 since the summer of 2018, most of whom hold settlement cards, according to a previous statement by a member of the office, Muhammad al-Shara’.
Although the agreement reached by the parties to the conflict in Daraa includes not arresting any person whose status has been settled, the security forces of the Syrian government have arrested 67 people in Daraa since the start of the implementation of the agreement, according to what al-Shara’ previously told North Press.
35 people out of 67 were released, while the fate of the others is still unknown, according to al-Shara’.
A general amnesty was issued on June 27 for 100 detainees from Daraa, while the total number of those released has reached 192 since the summer of 2018, according to the office.