The White Helmets, a Syrian rescue group, announced today that they have sought the help of the UN to obtain plans for Syria’s “secret prisons” from Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president who fled the country. After being ousted from power by a coalition of Islamist rebels, Assad fled with his family to Russia. “We have addressed a request to the UN, through an international mediator, to plead with Russia to put pressure on the criminal (…) Bashar al-Assad,” said the head of the organization, Raed al-Saleh, in a post on the X platform. As he explained, he wants to obtain the maps where the locations of the secret prisons are recorded, but also the lists of the prisoners “so that we can get to them as soon as possible”. “Human slaughterhouse” Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, more than 100,000 people have died in Syrian prisons, mostly from torture, as estimated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in 2022. At the same time […]
Source: News Beast
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