Syria – Action Group
Zaman al-Wasl newspaper revealed leaked official records from Sednaya Military Prison, including extensive lists of detainees transferred to military hospitals in Damascus. Many names were marked with the word “corpse,” documenting the deaths of hundreds, including Palestinian refugees.
According to the documents published in the “Death Cabinets” series, the family of Palestinian-Syrian student Uday Ahmad al-Hajj Daoud found his name in the death register two years after his arrest in 2013 at the age of 19 while studying engineering and computer technology at Tartous University. The document shows that he died on May 1, 2015, after spending about two years in detention.
The records also mention the name of Palestinian-Syrian Muhammad Maher Awad Daoud, who worked as a manager at the Preserving Grace Charitable Society in Damascus and holds a degree in commerce and economics. He was arrested from his home on April 11, 2014, before the “Sednaya Death Register” confirmed his death in 2015.
The documents indicate that the names were accompanied by numbers in red and signed by doctors working in military hospitals, as well as officers who supervised the documentation process. The records cover the period between 2014 and 2016 and include hundreds of victims, many of whom died under torture or medical negligence.
Human rights activists assert that these leaks shed light on some of the violations affecting Palestinian detainees in Syria, thousands of whom remain unaccounted for to this day. Statistics from the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria indicate that at least 1,305 Palestinian refugees have died under torture in Syrian regime prisons, while more than 5,370 Palestinian detainees remain missing and their fate remains unknown.