Assad system requests cash to close delivered prisoners’ cases, disregarding the reprieve order

Thomas Henry
2 min readMay 27, 2022

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The Syrian system of Bashar Al-Assad is supposedly “coercing” the family members of late delivered prisoners by requesting gigantic measures of cash as a trade-off for the assurance that their cases will be shut.

Recently, the Assad system gave a wide-going reprieve for prisoners, which supposedly reliable the arrival of detainees kept on charges of “illegal intimidation” — by and large significance anybody associated with dissenting or reprimanding the specialists. It was the principal absolution of its sort all through the continuous very long-term nationwide conflict and was even as of late lauded by the United Nations.

It was subsequently uncovered that the system is as yet blackmailing cash from families for the arrival of prisoners who were intended to be liberated under the pardon. On the off chance that that infringement of the acquittal was sufficiently not, it is again supposedly being disregarded through the system’s requesting of cash from the family members of even the people who have proactively been delivered under that pronouncement.

As per the UK-based association, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), system security officials are moving toward groups of the delivered prisoners with the interest to surrender up to 30 million Syrian pounds ($57,291) as a trade-off for the conclusion of their cases.

Citing neighborhood sources in Syria, that’s what SOHR uncovered “The officials compromised … that the arrival of [the prisoners] came without losing their security cases and that they are as yet likely to capture later.”

Addressing the UK-based news association, the New Arab, SOHR’s Director, Fadel Abdul Ghany, told it that, up to this point, just 523 prisoners have been delivered under the reprieve while around 132,000 others on ‘psychological warfare’ charges are as yet being held in Syria’s jail organization.

“The individuals who Assad captured or vanished are his prisoners, he is behaving like a mafia,” Abdul Ghany said. Adding that, around 87,000 effectively vanished individuals are as yet remembered to be confined by Damascus, “just 6 or 7 effectively vanished individuals had been delivered as a component of the pardon order.”

Under the ongoing pace of delivery, he expressed, the absolution can’t be satisfied. “In the event that Assad keeps on delivering an absolution order consistently, and discharges 1,000 [each time], then, at that point, we want 132 years until all prisoners are delivered, [that is] if he somehow managed to quit capturing [people] … and he won’t ever stop.”

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