Thirty-five-year-old Khadr Salim al-Wadi, from al-Mazra’a town in the western suburbs of Suwayda governorate, was arrested by Syrian regime servicemen on October 25, 2022 at Suwayda National Hospital, Suwayda city, while he was receiving treatment following a car accident that resulted in a head trauma, and the amputation of a finger on his right hand. The arrest, over his failure to join the regime’s reserve forces as part of his military service, was made with no court-issued legal warrant. His family has not been informed of his detention, with the authorities confiscating his phone and preventing him from contacting his family or lawyer.
SNHR is concerned that Khadr may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to be classified as forcibly disappeared, with 85% of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of reparations for the victims and their families, both materially and morally, and call on all parties to put an end to all arbitrary detentions whose only purpose is to spread mass fear and extort people.
We also call for revealing the fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by Syrian regime forces. We are seriously concerned for their fate.
