New detainees from Syria’s Daraa set free under reconciliation
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, a new batch of detainees of Daraa, south Syria, was released by security services of the Syrian government forces.
The ceremony of the release of 20 detainees, which was held in the building of the governorate, was attended by a number of government officials and officers, in addition to Russian Military Police officers, and the families of the detainees, local sources in the city of Daraa said.
In November, North Press released a report in which it talked about the clause on the release of the detainees and the statement about the fate of the forcibly disappeared which was not implemented in Daraa settlements until today.
Despite asking the Syrian government for clarifying the fate of the forcibly disappeared and releasing them, it is still procrastinating, a source of the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad earlier said.
The Martyrs Documentation Office in Daraa has recorded more than 6,800 people from Daraa, who are detained, missed or forcibly disappeared. The office also documented the killing of 25 people under torture in the prisons of the government forces during 2021.
21 detainees from Daraa were set free by the Syrian security forces on December 4.
North Press cited the families of the detainees, who were released previously, as saying “their sons had been arrested on no charges and were kept at the security branches of the Syrian government.”
The families of the detainees had to pay large sums of money to officers of the Syrian government in order to include them in the list of those to be released, according to a father of one of the detainees.