A 38-year-old man identified as Duried al-Masri, from Um al-Mayathen town in the eastern suburbs of Daraa governorate, was arrested on May 5, 2023, by members of the Syrian regime’s Military Security division in a raid on his home in the town. He was taken to a regime detention center in Daraa city.
The arrest was carried out without any court-issued legal warrant being presented. Samer’s family was not informed of his arrest, while his phone was seized, and he has not been allowed to contact his family or a lawyer.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is concerned that he may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet another case of enforced disappearance, with 85 percent of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of both material and moral reparations for the victims of such detentions and for their families, 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 on the Syrian regime to reveal the fate of the thousands of people forcibly disappeared by regime forces about whose fate we are seriously concerned.
