{"id":86831,"date":"2019-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/8195\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:00:00","slug":"8195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/8195","title":{"rendered":"567 Palestinians from Syria Tortured to Death in Syrian Jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>AGPS documented the death of 567 Palestinian refugees since the outburst of the Syrian warfare.<\/div>\n<div>A couple of days earlier, a Palestinian engineer died as a result of torture. The local authorities handed over his identity documents to his family.<\/div>\n<div>80 Palestinian refugees from Syria were pronounced dead in 2018 alone, up from 13 refugees in 2017. 77 victims were identified through pictures leaked from Syrian state prisons.<\/div>\n<div>Field reporters believe the real number to be far higher due to the government&#8217;s reticence to reveal the names and fates of Palestinian detainees&#8217; and the families&#8217; fears to disclose their relatives&#8217; names over retaliation concerns.<\/div>\n<div>The list of victims includes activists, volunteers, medics, engineers, academics, journalists, university students, and artists.<\/div>\n<div>According to data by AGPS, 1,724 Palestinian refugees, among them children, women and elderly refugees, have been enduring unknown fates in Syrian government lock-ups. Toddlers clinging to their mothers&#8217; arms have also been spotted in Syrian jails.<\/div>\n<div>According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian refugees have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.<\/div>\n<div>AGPS continues to urge the Syrian authorities to disclose the condition and whereabouts of Palestinian refugees held in its penitentiaries.<\/div>\n<div>AGPS believes that such practices represent flagrant violations of international law which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGPS documented the death of 567 Palestinian refugees since the outburst of the Syrian warfare. A couple of days earlier, a Palestinian engineer died as a result of torture. The local authorities handed over his identity documents to his family. 80 Palestinian refugees from Syria were pronounced dead in 2018 alone, up from 13 refugees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}