New batch of detainees released by government in Syria’s Daraa
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a new batch of detainees from Daraa governorate, south Syria, was released by Syrian government security forces.
“Twenty detainees from Daraa were released in the Daraa Provincial Council hall,” North Press reported local sources.
The ceremony of releasing the detainees was attended by the head of the security and military committee in the southern region, Major General Mufid Hassan, the Secretary of the Daraa branch of the Baath Party Hussein al-Rifai, and the governor of Daraa, Marwan Sharbak, in addition to a number of Russian military police officers, the sources added.
Fifteen detainees, including six not from Daraa, were released by the Syrian security forces on November 7.
This is the fifth batch of those released from Daraa governorate, under the name of “honored” by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On October 26, North Press published a report in which it talked about the clause on the release of detainees and the statement of the fate of the missing, which had not yet been implemented in the Daraa settlements.
On June 27, a general amnesty was issued against 100 detainees from Daraa, and the total number of those released since the summer of 2018, reached 192, according to the Martyrs’ Documentation Office in Daraa.
The office’s database records more than 6,800 people from Daraa, who are detained, missed or forcibly disappeared.